| First Name | Frank |
| Last Name | Sterling |
| Year of Conviction | 1992 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2010 |
| Testing inculpated culprit | Non-Cold Hit |
| State of Conviction | New York |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Trial |
| Type of Crime | Murder |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | White |
| Juvenile | No |
| Did the defendant testify at trial? | No |
| Types of evidence at trial |
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| Were non-public facts alleged? | Yes |
| Type of Forensic Evidence |
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| Types of Flawed Forensics |
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| Examples of Non-Public or Corroborated Facts and Inconsistencies | ● Location of murder on walking trail. ● Victim was wearing "a purple top or two-toned and dark pants," ● Victim was hit and kicked, and had pants taken off. ● Victim shot with a BB gun, thrown on trail BUT ● Signs victim was dragged into brush, not that she fell into the brush as described ● No entire BB Gun found. ● Victim was wearing a purple jacket with white stripes |
| Quotes from law enforcement testimony | Officers described having asked open-ended questions, such as, “I asked ‘What clothing did she have on?’” |
| Quotes from prosecution arguments | “Truthful? How does the defendant know it’s a purple jacket or purple top? A guess? Instead of saying yellow, red, orange, blue, black, green, gray, brown? He just guesses purple? And what is she wearing? A purple jacket, coincidentally, a two tone sweater… you also that that [the police] never releated to the media, held back from the media, was the purple jacket.” |
| Interrogation Recorded | Videotape of part of interrogation |
| Highest level reached | Appeal |