Not Guilty: Thirty Six Actual Cases in Which
An Innocent Man Was Convicted (1957)
by Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank

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Edward A. Hodsdon

In 1946, in Presque Isle, Maine, the police arrested Edward A. Hodsdon on a charge of assault with intent to rape. Identified by the victim of the crime, Hodsdon went to trial. He was convicted and sentenced to a fifteen-year prison term. Six years later, in 1952, a man named Edward Kennison, arrested on another charge, confessed that he, not Hodsdon, had committed the assault for which Hodsdon had been convicted. On August 8, 1952, the Governor granted Hodsdon an unconditional pardon.

SOURCE

1. New Haven Register, August 8, 1952, p. 19.