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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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2 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1928 |
Year
Cleared:
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1930 |
Location
of Trial:
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Alabama |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
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Codefendant of Geoge Yelder. Convicted of murder based on the elaborate and detailed story of Louise's 12 year old daughter and 9 year old niece that Louise and George Yelder had committed a murder. Louise and Yelder were released 2 months after their supposed victim was discovered alive in another county. Butler had initially confessed under police pressure, but later repudiated it. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Deliberately false eyewitness testimony Louise Butler's 12 year old daughter and 9 year old niece, and the police's browbeating of a false confession from codefendant Louise Butler to the murder of a person who was in fact alive. |
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Alleged victim was found alive in another country.
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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. 102. |
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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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Black |
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