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The Exoneration Of

Antonio Beaver
By: Sophia Miller; B8
General Information
Antonio Beaver was convicted in his
home state of Missouri on the charge
of first-degree robbery in 1997.

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His initial sentence was 18 years but
when he was exonerated in 2007 he
ended up only serving 10 of those
years.

Photo- Antonio telling reporters


how hard it was to prove his
innocence
Contributing Cause of Arrest
The woman who was robbed described the perpetrator as
a clean shaven african american man with a “david
letterman” gap in his teeth who was about 5’10 with a
baseball cap on his head.

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Six days later the police picked up Antonio because he
resembled the sketch of the woman's description of the
man.

Beaver had a full mustache, was 6’2’’ tall and had chipped
teeth. The same detective then prepared a live lineup
including Beaver and three other men – two of them police
officers. Beaver and the other non-officer were the only
two to wear baseball caps, and Beaver was the only one
with noticeable defects to his teeth. The victim identified
Beaver.
Antonio Beaver

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Photo- Young Antonio before he
was arrested.
Antonio Beaver was a normal, family-loving person
with a wife and young son, never having
committed a crime, and had a great life. But on
August 15th, 1996, a carjacking took place in a
parking lot in St. Louis, Missouri. Antonio Beaver
was a man who believed in himself and didn’t stop
at nothing to prove his innocence.
The Crime

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As she was planning to get out of her car to go into work from the parking lot, a 26
year old woman walked up to a man she thought was the parking attendant. The
man then told her that she had to move her car or it would be towed. As she

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proceeded to go back to her he had starting following her. Getting in her car the man
then said she didn't in fact have to move her car. As she was getting out the man
suddenly attacked her with a screwdriver and demanded her to hand over her keys
and purse. After an initial struggle with the man she decided to flee and left her purse
on the car seat while jumping out of the car. As she was leaving she noticed blood
inside the drivers side door of her car from the man bleeding. When she got away she
ran into a nearby parking garage and called the police.
The Evidence
The sole evidence in the

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robbery was the blood found
on the drivers side door and
the fingerprints on the door
and rear view mirror that the
criminal left behind.

This fingerprints contained the


identity of the thief and could
be tested to try to match to
potential suspects.
The Trial

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The Trials Mistakes
In April 1977, Antonio was tried with the first degree robbery. The victim identified

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Beaver as the man who attacked her in the courtroom and that was that. Even

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though the defense had the fingerprints from the drivers side and rear view mirror

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of the victims car and they made the argument that the prints on the rear view

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mirror could have only been from the person who was driving the car and they did
not match Antonios, The prosecution stated that the victim had a clear memory
and was more reliable at identifying the perpetrator. After several hours of
deliberation over the course of two days, the jury convicted Antonio of first degree
robbery and he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Exoneration
While he was in jail Antonio Beaver never stopped
advocating and fighting to prove his innocence.

In 2001 Antonio filed a motion on his own behalf

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for DNA testing. The state opposed the motion
but the court granted a hearing on the issue in
2005. The innocence project then picked up
Antonios case and filed a second brief on his
behalf in 2006

The state then agreed to DNA test the blood


swab from inside the car door in October 2006.
The results of the testing proved that Antonio
Beaver was not the man that robbed the woman Photo- Antonio leaves the ST. Louis
and therefore innocent. Antonio Beaver was courthouse as a freeman on March
29, 2007.
officially free on March 29, 2007.
State Compensation In St. Louis Missouri, the state and city
where Antonio Beaver was wrongly
incarcerated, there's a law for
compensation for exonerated prisoners:
Persons determined to be innocent
through DNA evidence are eligible for $50

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per day of post-conviction confinement if
filed within one year of release. Effective:
2006

So for Antonio Beaver he got paid 50


dollars for each of the 3650 days he was
incarcerated.

In total he was paid 181,000 dollars by the


state which was paid in annual
installments of about 36,500 dollars
Life Post- Exoneration

PORTFOLIO
Antonio Beaver served 10 out of the 18 years he was
originally sentenced and became an official free man in
2007.

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The initial DNA test not only excluded Antonio from
being the source of the blood but also led to the
identification of another man already incarcerated on
different charges.

As a free man Antonio he said in an interview for


StarNews, “Everybody's making promises: 'We're going
to do this and do that.' Ain't nobody done nothing yet. I
got to deal with it, man. It's just the way our society is.”
Antonio has reconnected with his son but struggles to
get jobs after being fired from his first job at a
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laundromat.
Sources:

https://innocenceproject.org/cases/antonio-beaver/#:~:text=Six%20day

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s%20later%2C%20a%20detective,two%20of%20them%20police%20office
rs.

https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Antonio-Beaver-Research-Paper-5B227C
6CF87A42C3

https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2007/09/13/out-of-priso
n-but-out-of-luck/30321539007/

https://innocenceproject.org/policies/exoneree-compensation-in-mi
ssouri/#:~:text=Persons%20determined%20to%20be%20innocent,wit
hin%20one%20year%20of%20release.

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