Jonathan Charles Treadway Jr.

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	3.5
Year Crime:	1974
Year Convicted:	1975
Year Cleared:	1978
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Arizona
County or Region of Crime:	Maricopa
City of Crime:	Phoenix
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Jonathan Charles Treadway Jr. was wrongly convicted in 1975 of first-degree murder and sodomy related to the sexual violation and death of a six year old boy in Phoenix, Arizona on August 30, 1974. Jonathan Treadway was sentenced to death. Treadaway's conviction was reversed by the Arizona Surpreme Court on July 11, 1977. Treadaway was acquitted by a jury after his retrial in 1978."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"State v. Treadaway, 568 P. 2d 1061, 116 Ariz. 163 (Ariz: Sup. Ct., 7-11-1977) (Reversing conviction and ordering a new trial.)"
Information Location 1:	"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7411388703560216757&q=Jonathan+Treadaway&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"
Information Source 2:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 164."
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Information Source 3:	"Innocence: List of Those Freed From Death Row, Death Penalty Information Center"
Information Location 3:	http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row
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Jonathan Charles Treadway Jr.

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

3.5

Year Crime:

1974

Year Convicted:

1975

Year Cleared:

1978

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Arizona

County or Region of Crime:

Maricopa

City of Crime:

Phoenix

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Treadaway was acquitted by a jury after his retrial in 1978.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"State v. Treadaway, 568 P. 2d 1061, 116 Ariz. 163 (Ariz: Sup. Ct., 7-11-1977) (Reversing conviction and ordering a new trial.)"

Information Location 1:

"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7411388703560216757&q=Jonathan+Treadaway&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"

Information Source 2:

"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 164."

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"Innocence: List of Those Freed From Death Row, Death Penalty Information Center"

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row

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