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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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6 |
Charge: |
First Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1920 |
Year
Cleared:
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1926 |
Location
of Trial:
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Alabama |
Result:
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Died in Prison |
Summary
of Case:
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"Codefendant of James Hudson, Cleo Staten and John Murchison. Willie Crutcher and James Hudson both died in prison prior to their exoneration. The convictions were based on perjured testimony." |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Perjured testimony of prosecution witness. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Actual culprit identified
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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. 108+." |
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Source 2:
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Dredmundhiggins database |
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Location 2:
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http://www.dredmundhiggins.com/ |
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Source 3:
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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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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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