Morris Emert against Wentworth Springer, Lawrence Jackson, and Robert Taliafarro
- Title of the report
- Morris Emert against Wentworth Springer, Lawrence Jackson, and Robert Taliafarro
- Summary of report
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While attempting to rob a Madison Avenue
- Source type
- DA's Case File
- DA report
- D206239 (1935)
- Source date
- September 30, 1935
- Charge - initial
- Murder
- Judicial outcome
- Convicted
- Judicial outcome date
- March 16, 1936
- Sentence
- 0
- Pages scanned
- 127
- Comments
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Death sentence converted to life imprisonment by Governor Lehman on January 13,1937. A request for parole in 1959 claimed that the defendants were physically coerced into confession by police. Testimonies from others, submitted to the courts over the following years, maintained that the three boys were prosecuted in a case of mistaken identity.
- Report deleted
- No