Samuel Tito Williams

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	16
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Year Convicted:	1948
Year Cleared:	1963
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
County or Region of Crime:	Kings
City of Crime:	New York City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Samuel Tito Williams was wrongly convicted on January 22, 1948 of murder based solely on his false confession that the police had coerced from him. After his conviction by a jury Samuel Williams was sentenced to death. In 1949 New York Governor Thomas Dewey commutted Samuel Williams death sentence to life in prison. In 1963 his conviction was overturned by a federal court on the grounds the confession had been coerced, and he was released after almost 16 years of wrongful imprisonment. He was later awarded $40,000 in compensation from the City of New York for "malicious prosecution.""
Conviction Caused By:	False confession coerced by police pressure.
Innocence Proved By:	"In 1963 his conviction was overturned by a federal court on the grounds the confession had been coerced, and he was released after almost 16 years of wrongful imprisonment. "
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Compensation Awarded:	"$40,000 (City of New York)"
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 354."
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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. 169."
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Information Source 3:	"Ex rel. Samual Tito Villiams v. Fay, 323 F.2d 65 (2nd Cir., 10-4-1963)"
Information Location 3:	https://www.scribd.com/document/320360152/United-States-of-America-Ex-Rel-Samuel-Tito-Williams-v-Edwin-M-Fay-Warden-of-Greenhaven-Prison-Stormville-New-York-323-F-2d-65-2d-Cir-1963
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Samuel Tito Williams

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1948

Year Cleared:

1963

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

Kings

City of Crime:

New York City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession coerced by police pressure.

Innocence Proved By:

"In 1963 his conviction was overturned by a federal court on the grounds the confession had been coerced, and he was released after almost 16 years of wrongful imprisonment. "

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$40,000 (City of New York)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 354."

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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. 169."

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Information Source 3:

"Ex rel. Samual Tito Villiams v. Fay, 323 F.2d 65 (2nd Cir., 10-4-1963)"

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https://www.scribd.com/document/320360152/United-States-of-America-Ex-Rel-Samuel-Tito-Williams-v-Edwin-M-Fay-Warden-of-Greenhaven-Prison-Stormville-New-York-323-F-2d-65-2d-Cir-1963

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