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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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16 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Death |
Year Convicted: |
1976 |
Year
Cleared:
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1992 |
Location
of Trial:
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Arizona |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Death Row Inmate - spent 12 yrs on death row for the wrongful conviction of burning his two daughters to death. False conviction resulted from faulty scientific testimony and testing, erroneous eyewitness testimony and prosecutorial misconduct of destroying exculpatory evidence. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Faulty scientific testimony and testing, erroneous eyewitness testimony and prosecutorial misconduct of destroying exculpatory evidence. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Conviction overturned
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Defendant
Aided By:
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Compensation Awarded: |
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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When Imprisoned:
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Information Source 1: |
Death Penalty Information Center |
Information
Location 1:
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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html |
Information
Source 2:
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Patrick Crusade website & database |
Information
Location 2:
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http://www.patrickcrusade.org/wrongful.htm |
Information
Source 3:
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""Lawyers seek panel to investigate when innocents sent to prison," Carol Sowers, The Arizona Republic, 11-12-2001." |
Information
Location 3:
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From Death Row to Halfway House, Phoenix Gazette, Jan 24, 1995, B1 |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
Book
About
Case:
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Triple Jeopardy by Roger Parloff, 1996 |
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