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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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0.5 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1934 |
Year
Cleared:
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1934 |
Location
of Trial:
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Missouri |
Result:
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Pardoned |
Summary
of Case:
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Joked to police on street that he fit the description of killer and he was arrested. In May 1934, DeMore falsely confessed and pled guilty to the murder to escape a death sentence police threatened him with if he would be convicted after a trial. He was exonerated when the real killer was captured and confessed. Missouri Gov. Park pardoned DeMore in Oct. 1934. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Falsely confessed under intense police interrogation in which he was threatened that he would be receive a death sentence if he kept insisting he was innocent and went to trial and was convicted. Also, eyewitness error. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Actual murderer was arrested and confessed. Pardoned by MO Gov. Park in Oct. 1934.
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Compensation Awarded: |
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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. 110. |
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The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 251-2. |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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Comments About Case: |
Falsely confessed |
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