Jerry Newson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1950s
State:California
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Biography

Jerry Newson was a nineteen-year-old Oakland shoeshine worker sentenced to death for a double murder, in a case the Civil Rights Congress publicized as a frame-up built on a coerced confession and tainted identification. After years of campaigning his conviction was overturned.

Case

Charges: Double murder.
Sentence: Death; later overturned. Verdict as recorded: Convicted and sentenced to death; conviction later reversed after appeals. Charges as recorded: Double murder — a capital conviction his defenders called a frame-up.
Convicted: Yes

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