Phillip Travers

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Charge:	Mail Fraud
Sentence:	2 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
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Year Convicted:	1969
Year Cleared:	1974
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York - Federal Case
County or Region of Crime:	New York
City of Crime:	New York City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Philip Travers was wrongly convicted of twenty counts of mail fraud in federal court in Manhattan in 1969. Travers was sentenced to two years in prison. In 1974 the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the District Court's denail of Travers coram nobis petition that asserted the government didn't present evidence he had the requisite criminal intent required under the U.S. Supreme Court's clarification of the scope of the mail fraud statute in U.S. v. Maze, 414 US 395 (1974),"
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Innocence Proved By:	"In 1974 the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the granting of his writ of coram nobis based on the U.S. Supreme Court clarification of the scope of the mail fraud statute in U.S. v. Maze, 414 US 395 (1974),"
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"United States v. Philip Travers, 514 F. 2d 1171 (2nd Cir. 1974)"
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Phillip Travers

Charge:

Mail Fraud

Sentence:

2 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1969

Year Cleared:

1974

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York - Federal Case

County or Region of Crime:

New York

City of Crime:

New York City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"In 1974 the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the granting of his writ of coram nobis based on the U.S. Supreme Court clarification of the scope of the mail fraud statute in U.S. v. Maze, 414 US 395 (1974),"

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"United States v. Philip Travers, 514 F. 2d 1171 (2nd Cir. 1974)"

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"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16914218892139298997&q=United+States+v.+Travers&hl=en&as_sdt=2,48"

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