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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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11 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Death |
Year Convicted: |
1985 |
Year
Cleared:
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1996 |
Location
of Trial:
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Illinois |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Death Row inmate. One of the Ford Heights Four. Co-defendant Paula Gray falsely confessed and implicated her three co-defendants. Cleared after 14 yr effort that included David Protess' journalism class at Northwestern University. Police were given the identity of the killers 5 days after the murders, but concealed that information from the FHF who split settlements totaling $36 million. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Co-defendant Paula Gray falsely confessed and implicated her three co-defendants. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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DNA
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Defendant
Aided By:
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Compensation Awarded: |
$9 million |
Was Perpetrator Found? |
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When Imprisoned:
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Information Source 1: |
Death Penalty Information Center |
Information
Location 1:
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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html |
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Location 3:
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Source 4:
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Information
Location 4:
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""A Promise of Justice: The eighteen-year fight to save four innocent men," David Protess and Rob Warden, Hyperion, 1998" |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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Comments About Case: |
Co-defendant falsely confessed |
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