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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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34 |
Charge: |
Murder and Robbery |
Sentence: |
Death |
Year Convicted: |
1949 |
Year
Cleared:
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1983 |
Location
of Trial:
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Japan |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted of murder and robbery in 1949 based on his false confession. Sakae Menda was sentenced to death. Menda's conviction quashed in 1983 based on determination he had falsely confessed and that the prosection had failed to disclose exculpatory evidence to Menda's lawyers prior to his trial. Menda was released after 34 years on death row. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Police extracted false confession and prosecutors failed to disclose exculpatory evidence. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Menda's conviction quashed in 1993 based on determination he had falsely confessed and that the prosection had failed to disclose exculpatory evidence to Menda's lawyers prior to his trial.
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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23 |
Age
When Released:
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57 |
Information Source 1: |
Japanese lawyers criticize execution of three people, By Stuart Biggs, Bloomberg.net, August 23, 2007 |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=amX3OB25Gcmc&refer=japan |
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List of exonerated death row inmates, Wikipedia.com, August 27, 2007 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_inmates#Japan |
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Comments About Case: |
Falsely confessed |
Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org