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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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5 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Death |
Year Convicted: |
1989 |
Year
Cleared:
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1994 |
Location
of Trial:
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Illinois |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Death Row Inmate and codefendant of Ralph Frye. Wrongly convicted of murder and robbery of farmer William Dulan based on the false confession of Frye and the perjured testimony of the actual killer. Frye and Burrows were exonerated in 1994 based on the confession of the actual killer, Gayle Potter that she alone committed the crime and that she had falsely implicated the two men. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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False confession of Frye and the perjured testimony of the actual killer, Gayle Potter implicating Ralph Frye and Joseph Burrows. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Confession by the actual killer.
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Defendant
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Compensation Awarded: |
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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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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Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern School of Law |
Information
Location 2:
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http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/wrongful/exonerations/Burrows.htm |
Information
Source 3:
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NW School of Law Center on Wrongful Convictions |
Information
Location 3:
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http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/wrongful/exonerations/Burrows.htm |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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Case:
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Comments About Case: |
Falsely confessed |
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