Frank Trasco

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Charge:	"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)"
Sentence:	15 months
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1935
Year Convicted:	1935
Year Cleared:	1936
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
County or Region of Crime:	Nassau
City of Crime:	Garden City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Frank Trasco was a salesman for a wholesale butcher wrongly convicted in 1935 of theft for misappropriating $265 from his employer in Garden City, New York. Trasco's conviction was based on the testimony of a co-worker. Trasco was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. As Trasco was nearing the end of his sentence the witness confessed he committed perjury at Trasco's trial. Based on the new evidence he had been falsely identified, Trasco's conviction was overturned on May 19, 1936, his indictment was dismissed, and he was released from prison."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjury by the prosecution's key witness.
Innocence Proved By:	"Based on new evidence he had been falsely identified, Trasco's conviction was overturned on May 19, 1936, his indictment was dismissed, and he was released from prison."
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Age When Imprisoned:	33
Age When Released:	34
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 193"
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Frank Trasco

Charge:

"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)"

Sentence:

15 months

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1935

Year Convicted:

1935

Year Cleared:

1936

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

Nassau

City of Crime:

Garden City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjury by the prosecution's key witness.

Innocence Proved By:

"Based on new evidence he had been falsely identified, Trasco's conviction was overturned on May 19, 1936, his indictment was dismissed, and he was released from prison."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

33

Age When Released:

34

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Male

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"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 193"

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