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Larry Troy

 

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

1981

Year Convicted:

1983

Year Cleared:

1988

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Florida

County or Region of Crime:

Union

City of Crime:

Raiford

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Larry Troy was codefendant of Willie Brown. Troy and Brown were wrongly convicted in 1983 of first-degree murder of a fellow inmate on July 7, 1981 while they were imprisoned at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida. They were both sentenced to death. The convictions of Troy and Brown were overturned, and the charges were dismissed in 1988."

Conviction Caused By:

Testimony of a sole inmate informant considered reliable.

Innocence Proved By:

The convictions were overturned after the credibility of the prosecution's sole witness was destroyed.

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, 291 ( © 1992)."

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Information Source 2:

Death Penalty Information Center

Information Location 2:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html

Information Source 3:

"BROWN, Willie A. (B/M) and TROY, Larry (B/M), "

Information Location 3:

http://www.floridacapitalcases.state.fl.us/%5CDocuments%5CCase_updates%5CHtm%5C022401.htm

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