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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 Willie Crutcher, Cleo Staten and John Murchison. Willie Crutcher and James Hudson both died in prison prior to their exoneration. The four men's convictions were based on perjured testimony." |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Eyewitness error and perjured testimony. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Actual perpetrator discovered.
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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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"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932" |
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Source 3:
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Dredmundhiggins database |
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Location 3:
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http://www.dredmundhiggins.com/ |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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