Eddie Triplett

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole
Years Imprisoned:	13.33
Year Crime:	1998
Year Convicted:	1998
Year Cleared:	2011
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Louisiana
County or Region of Crime:	Orleans
City of Crime:	New Orleans
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Eddie Triplett was wrongly convicted in 1998 of possessing cocaine in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a repeat offender, Triplett was sentenced to life in prison without parole under Louisiana's habitual offender law. In September 2011 U.S. District Court Judge Helen "Ginger" Berrigan granted Triplett's federal habes corpus petition and vacated his conviction and ordered a new trial. In November 2011 the motion by the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office to dismiss the charges was granted, and Triplett was released. In 2013 Triplett was awarded a lump sun of $250,000 under Louisiana's wrongful imprisonment compensation statute."
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Compensation Awarded:	"$250,000 (State of Louisiana, 2013)"
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Age When Imprisoned:	38
Age When Released:	51
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Prisoner to be freed after discovery that Harry Connick's office withheld police report, By John Simerman (Staff writer), The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), November 19, 2011"
Information Location 1:	http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/prisoner_to_be_freed_after_dis.html
Information Source 2:	"Were the New Orleans police who arrested Eddie Triplett malicious or just mistaken?: An editorial, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), January 2, 2012"
Information Location 2:	http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2012/01/were_the_new_orleans_police_wh.html
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Eddie Triplett

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole

Years Imprisoned:

13.33

Year Crime:

1998

Year Convicted:

1998

Year Cleared:

2011

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Louisiana

County or Region of Crime:

Orleans

City of Crime:

New Orleans

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$250,000 (State of Louisiana, 2013)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

38

Age When Released:

51

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Prisoner to be freed after discovery that Harry Connick's office withheld police report, By John Simerman (Staff writer), The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), November 19, 2011"

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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/prisoner_to_be_freed_after_dis.html

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"Were the New Orleans police who arrested Eddie Triplett malicious or just mistaken?: An editorial, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), January 2, 2012"

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http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2012/01/were_the_new_orleans_police_wh.html

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