Zian Sung Wan

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	7
Year Crime:	1919
Year Convicted:	1919
Year Cleared:	1924
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	District of Columbia
County or Region of Crime:	District of Columbia
City of Crime:	District of Columbia
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Zian Sung Wan was wrongly convicted in 1919 of murder in the District of Columbia. After being held incommunicado and questoned for 7 days Zian Sung Wan confessed to a triple murder. After his conviction by a jury Wan was sentenced to death. Wan's conviction was overturned in 1924 by the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled his oral and signed confessions had been coerced. "But for this unusual intervention Wan would have been executed..." (MJ, 166)"
Conviction Caused By:	False confessions coerced by police misconduct.
Innocence Proved By:	Wan's conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled his oral and signed confessions had been coerced.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Asian
Information Source 1:	"Wan v. United States, 266 U.S. 1 (1924)"
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Information Source 2:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 166+."
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Zian Sung Wan

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

7

Year Crime:

1919

Year Convicted:

1919

Year Cleared:

1924

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

District of Columbia

County or Region of Crime:

District of Columbia

City of Crime:

District of Columbia

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confessions coerced by police misconduct.

Innocence Proved By:

Wan's conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled his oral and signed confessions had been coerced.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Asian

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"Wan v. United States, 266 U.S. 1 (1924)"

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"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 166+."

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