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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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28 |
Charge: |
Murder and Escape |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1973 |
Year
Cleared:
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2001 |
Location
of Trial:
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Alabama |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted in 1973 after a two hour trial of murdering two gas station attendents in Mobile, AL. Michael Pardue had falsely confessed to the murders under the duress of a non-stop four-day interrogation. A third murder conviction also falsely pinned on Michael Pardue was also reversed as erroneous. He was released in February 2001 after 28 years of wrongful conviction. Michael Pardue and his wife Becky co-authored a self-help book for the innocent, Freeing The Innocent: How We Did It (2002). |
Conviction
Caused By:
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"Police perjury, concealed and manufactured evidence, false confession and unreliable "jailhouse" snitches." |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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17 |
Age
When Released:
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45 |
Information Source 1: |
""Freeing the Innocent: How We Did It - A Handbook for the Wrongfully Convicted," Michael and Becky Pardue, self-published, 2002." |
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Book by Michael and Becky Pardue |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
Book
About
Case:
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Freeing The Innocent: How We Did It, By Michael Pardue and Becky Pardue (2002). |
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