Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Counterfeiting (Inclds. Possession of counterfeit bills) |
Sentence: |
6 years |
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1909 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
New Jersey |
County or Region of Crime: |
Passaic |
City of Crime: |
Patterson |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
Luigi Zambinao was wrongly convicted of counterfeiting. |
Conviction Caused By: |
Eyewitness error |
Innocence Proved By: |
False prosecution informant |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
Yes |
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"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932" |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org