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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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4 |
Charge: |
Child Abuse |
Sentence: |
23 yrs |
Year Convicted: |
1994 |
Year
Cleared:
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1998 |
Location
of Trial:
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Washington |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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One of the Wenatchee 43. Wife of codefendant Harold Everett. Falsely confessed to child abuse under intense police pressure. During a appellate court ordered hearing it was disclosed that Wash. State Child Services had concealed medical evidence that the couples children had never been sexually abused, etc. Exonerated by the Wash. Ct. of Appeals. The Everett's five children had been taken from them and she left four years of imprisonment with $88 in her pocket. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Falsely confessed to child abuse under intense police pressure. Erroneous child abuse accusations by the children involved under the influence of a Wenatchee detective and Washington State Child Protective Services workers. |
Innocence
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Defendant
Aided By:
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Innocent Project Northwest |
Compensation Awarded: |
Rec. Undisclosed Settlement |
Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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41 |
Age
When Released:
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45 |
Information Source 1: |
""Wenatchee couple settle suit in child-sex-abuse case," Mike Barber (staff), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10-5-2000" |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
Book
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Case:
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Book
Information:
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“Witch Hunt: a true story of social hysteria and abused justice,” Kathryn Lyon, Avon Books, NY, 1998. |
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Comments About Case: |
Falsely confessed |
Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org