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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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5 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Death |
Year Convicted: |
1948 |
Year
Cleared:
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1953 |
Location
of Trial:
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New Jersey |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Death Row Inmate. Codefendant of Cooper, English, Forrest, McKenzie and Thorpe. Five of the six defendants signed separate and inconsistent confessions although all 6 had solid alibis. The false confessions were obtained by police coercion. Press whipped up hysteria against the 6 defendants. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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False confessions by five of the six codefendants extracted under police pressure and threats. All the confessons were inconsistent with one another. |
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Information Source 1: |
“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 107+. |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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Comments About Case: |
Falsely confessed |
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