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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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2 |
Charge: |
First Degree Manslaughter |
Sentence: |
10 years |
Year Convicted: |
1975 |
Year
Cleared:
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1977 |
Location
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Alabama |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
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Wrongly convicted of manslaughter. |
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“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 167. |
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Black |
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