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Wrongly
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Years
Imprisoned:
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7 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Death |
Year Convicted: |
1919 |
Year
Cleared:
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1924 |
Location
of Trial:
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District of Columbia |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
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"Death Row inmate. After being held incommunicado and questoned for 7 days Zian Sung Wan confessed to a Washington D.C. triple murder. Wan's conviction was overturned 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:
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False confessions coerced by police misconduct. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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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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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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Asian |
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