Johnny Lee Wilson

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	9
Year Crime:	1986
Year Convicted:	1987
Year Cleared:	1995
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Missouri
County or Region of Crime:	Jasper
City of Crime:	Aurora
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Johnny Lee Wilson was wrongly convicted in 1987 of first-degree murder based on his false confession. Wilson pled guilty to first-degree murder to avoid the death penalty if convicted after a trial. He was instead sentenced to life in prison without parole. In 1988 another man confessed to the murder, providing details that only the actual murderer would know, and he said that Wilson had nothing to do with the crime. Wilson failed in getting his confession overturned, and he was imprisoned for seven years after the killer's confession, only released when pardoned by Missouri's governor in 1995."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession and false prosecution informant
Innocence Proved By:	Actual culprit discovered and confessed in 1987. Wilson was pardoned by Missouri's governor in 1995 after Wilson was unsucessful in getting his conviction overturned by the courts.
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	19
Age When Released:	28
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Johnny Lee Wilson, Cases of mentally disabled individuals be convicted on the basis of false confessions, BroadReach training and resources"
Information Location 1:	http://www.normemma.com/artautboy.htm
Information Source 2:	"The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World, By Steven A. Drizin & Richard A. Leo, 82 NCLRev 891-1007 (2004)"
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Information Source 3:	Actual Innocence - Exonerated Individuals whose cases involved prosecutorial misconduct
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Johnny Lee Wilson

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

9

Year Crime:

1986

Year Convicted:

1987

Year Cleared:

1995

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Missouri

County or Region of Crime:

Jasper

City of Crime:

Aurora

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession and false prosecution informant

Innocence Proved By:

Actual culprit discovered and confessed in 1987. Wilson was pardoned by Missouri's governor in 1995 after Wilson was unsucessful in getting his conviction overturned by the courts.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

19

Age When Released:

28

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Johnny Lee Wilson, Cases of mentally disabled individuals be convicted on the basis of false confessions, BroadReach training and resources"

Information Location 1:

http://www.normemma.com/artautboy.htm

Information Source 2:

"The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World, By Steven A. Drizin & Richard A. Leo, 82 NCLRev 891-1007 (2004)"

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Information Source 3:

Actual Innocence - Exonerated Individuals whose cases involved prosecutorial misconduct

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http://www.publicintegrity.org/pm/default.aspx?sid=sidebarsb&aid=38

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