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John Duval

Years Imprisoned:	26
Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	25 yrs to LI
Year Convicted:	1973
Year Cleared:	1999
Location of Trial:	New York
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Codefendant of Betty Tyson and both falsely convicted under the same circumstances. John Duval was a transvestite prostitute who falseley confessed to killing 52-yo white man. No physical evidence linked him or Tyson to the crime. Duval's conviction was reversed in April 1999, and he was acquitted after a retrial in April 2000.
Conviction Caused By:	False confession, fabricated eyewitness testimony, police perjury, prosecutorial concealment of exonerating witness statement.
Innocence Proved By:	Brady violation. Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (NY) reporter Gary Craig became interested in Tyson's case and he found a jail counselor who reported her 1973 beating to his superiors the day after it occurred. A law firm took her case pro bono and they found a hidden police witness statement from the 2nd witness that he never saw Tyson with the victim - the opposite of what the police forced him to testify to at her trial. Both teenage witnesses were held as 'material witnesses' in jail for 7 months until her trial and threatened with being charged with murder if they didn't perjure themselves.
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Age When Imprisoned:	20
Age When Released:	46
Information Source 1:	1973 Murder Conviction Overturned Suppressed Evidence Leads to Second Reversal in Case April 6, 1999 By Richard Zitrin ROCHESTER, NY (APBNews.com)
Information Location 1:	http://www.truthinjustice.org/duval.htm
Information Source 2:	""Duval Was Freed, Retried, Then Finally Acquitted," David Christopher Naylor Swanson, Justice Denied Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 11, March 2000"
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Information Source 3:	""Duval Acquitted After 25 Years in Jail," Ben Dobbin, AP, Rochester, NY, Feb. 3, 2000."
Information Location 3:	http://www.truthinjustice.org/duvalupdate.htm
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Ethnicity/Skin:	Black
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Comments About Case:	Falsely confessed

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John Duval

Years Imprisoned:

26

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

25 yrs to LI

Year Convicted:

1973

Year Cleared:

1999

Location of Trial:

New York

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession, fabricated eyewitness testimony, police perjury, prosecutorial concealment of exonerating witness statement.

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Found?

Age When Imprisoned:

20

Age When Released:

46

Information Source 1:

1973 Murder Conviction Overturned Suppressed Evidence Leads to Second Reversal in Case April 6, 1999 By Richard Zitrin ROCHESTER, NY (APBNews.com)

Information Location 1:

http://www.truthinjustice.org/duval.htm

Information Source 2:

""Duval Was Freed, Retried, Then Finally Acquitted," David Christopher Naylor Swanson, Justice Denied Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 11, March 2000"

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""Duval Acquitted After 25 Years in Jail," Ben Dobbin, AP, Rochester, NY, Feb. 3, 2000."

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http://www.truthinjustice.org/duvalupdate.htm

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Ethnicity/Skin:

Black

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Falsely confessed

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