Shelia Wilson

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	20 years
Years Imprisoned:	4
Year Crime:	1978
Year Convicted:	1979
Year Cleared:	1983
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Kentucky
County or Region of Crime:	Christian
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Shelia Wilson was wrongly convicted on March 13, 1979 of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband in Christian County, Kentucky on February 3, 1978. After her conviction by a jury Wilson was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Wilson's conviction was affirmed on direct appeal and her post-conviction petition was denied by Kentucky state courts. The shooter gave a sworn deposition that Wilson was "in no fashion or form" involved in her husband's murder. Wilson filed a federal habeas petition that was granted in 1983, with the federal judge ordering a new trial because the evidence of her "intent to murder her husband was insufficient to support a jury conviction of first-degree murder. The prosecution declined to retry Wilson and the charges were dismissed."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Wilson filed a federal habeas petition that was granted in 1983, with the federal judge ordering a new trial because the evidence of her "intent to murder her husband was insufficient to support a jury conviction of first-degree murder. The prosecution declined to retry Wilson and the charges were dismissed."
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Age When Imprisoned:	26
Age When Released:	30
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“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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Shelia Wilson

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

20 years

Years Imprisoned:

4

Year Crime:

1978

Year Convicted:

1979

Year Cleared:

1983

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Kentucky

County or Region of Crime:

Christian

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

26

Age When Released:

30

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“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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