Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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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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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 |
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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html |
Information Source 3: |
"BROWN, Willie A. (B/M) and TROY, Larry (B/M), " |
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http://www.floridacapitalcases.state.fl.us/%5CDocuments%5CCase_updates%5CHtm%5C022401.htm |
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