Minoru Yasui

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Charge:	Curfew Violation
Sentence:	"1 yr plus $5,000 fine and loss of US citizenship"
Years Imprisoned:	0.75
Year Crime:	1942
Year Convicted:	1942
Year Cleared:	1986
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Oregon - Federal Case
County or Region of Crime:	Multnomah
City of Crime:	Portland
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Minoru Yasui was wrongly convicted in Portland, Oregon on November 16, 1942 of violating the curfew imposed on the west coast of the United States for people of Japanese descent after Pearl Harbor. U.S. District Court Judge Alger Fee decided after a bench trial that Minoru Yasui, who was born in Hood River, Oregon in 1916, forfeited his U.S. citizenship by his actions, and found him guilty of violating the curfew. Yasui was sentenced by to one year in prison plus a $5,000 fine. Yasui appealed, and on June 21, 1943 the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Yasui's conviction, but ordered that he be resentenced because his citizenship shouldn't have been taken from him. Judge Fee resentenced Yasui to time served with no fine. Yasui was released in July 1943 after spending nine months in solitary confinement at the Multnomah County Jail in Portland. After his release he was confined at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho. In 1984 Yasui filed a writ of coram nobis to overturn his conviction, which was granted in 1986, and he died shortly afterwards on November 12, 1986. In 1988 Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act calling on the government to apologize for its internment policies."
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Innocence Proved By:	"In 1984 Yasui filed a writ of coram nobis to overturn his conviction, which was granted in 1986."
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Age When Imprisoned:	25
Age When Released:	26
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Asian
Information Source 1:	"Minoru Yasui v. U.S., 320 U.S. 115 (1943)"
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Information Source 2:	"A First-Class U.S. Citizen, By Christine M. Kreiser, American History (magazine), June 2009, p. 23"
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Information Source 3:	"Minoru Yasui (1916-1986) - Oregon Biographies, The Oregon History Project"
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Minoru Yasui

Charge:

Curfew Violation

Sentence:

"1 yr plus $5,000 fine and loss of US citizenship"

Years Imprisoned:

0.75

Year Crime:

1942

Year Convicted:

1942

Year Cleared:

1986

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Oregon - Federal Case

County or Region of Crime:

Multnomah

City of Crime:

Portland

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"In 1984 Yasui filed a writ of coram nobis to overturn his conviction, which was granted in 1986."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

25

Age When Released:

26

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Asian

Information Source 1:

"Minoru Yasui v. U.S., 320 U.S. 115 (1943)"

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Information Source 2:

"A First-Class U.S. Citizen, By Christine M. Kreiser, American History (magazine), June 2009, p. 23"

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"Minoru Yasui (1916-1986) - Oregon Biographies, The Oregon History Project"

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http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Minoru-Yasui.cfm

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