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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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2 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1975 |
Year
Cleared:
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1977 |
Location
of Trial:
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Ohio |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted of murder and rape based on his false confession. Carmen had an IQ between 43 and 55, and his memory was so bad that he only sometimes recognized his lawyers and he regularly asserted and then denied the same things. Carmen was released when several alibi witnesses gave unchallenged testimony that when the murder occurred, Carmen was inside the Volunteers of America Shelter, far from the crime scene. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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False confession based on suggestibility due to a low mental level |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Alibi witnesses proved Carmen had been inside the Volunteers of America Shelter at the time of the murders, far from the crime location.
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Defendant
Aided By:
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Alibi witnesses |
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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. 103. |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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Comments About Case: |
Falsely confessed |
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