Word: dannemora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vegas." So Louis Hoffner, 28 years old, went off to serve his life sentence in Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y. But outside Dannemora, more and more voices were insisting that Hoffner was innocent. A policeman friend of the family, an attorney, a New York World-Telegram reporter, set to work to dig up the irregularities, and they found plenty, e.g., that Louis Hoffner's prosecutors had in effect concealed the shaky identification in the lineup. In November 1952, Louis Hoffner was set free...
Mowery tried to get into Dannemora prison to see Hoffner himself, but prison officials, angered by Mowery's World-Telly stories, refused him. So Mowery got in by tagging along with the assistant D.A. and posing as his aide. Then prison officials cut off all mail between Mowery and Hoffner. Mowery got around the ban by inserting his questions in letters that others sent to Hoffner. Reporter Mowery wrote more than 60 stories about the case, formed a Hoffner Committee and collected thousands of signatures on a petition for a new trial. But he was still short one crucial...