Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Second Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
20 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
4 |
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1967 |
Year Cleared: |
1971 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Florida |
County or Region of Crime: |
Miami-Dade |
City of Crime: |
Miami |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
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"David Ronald Wilson was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder in Miami, Florida. After his conviction by a jury David Wilson was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was freed in 1971 when the prosecution admitted the eyewitness testimony upon which the jury based its guilty verdict was perjured." |
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Sex: |
Male |
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Black |
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"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, 355 ( © 1992)." |
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