| First Name | RobertLee |
| Last Name | Veal |
| Year of Conviction | 1995 |
| Year of Exoneration | 2011 |
| Testing inculpated culprit | Cold Hit |
| State of Conviction | Illinois |
| Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea | Guilty Plea |
| Type of Crime | Murder |
| Death Sentence | No |
| Gender of Exoneree | Male |
| Race of exoneree | Black |
| Juvenile | Yes |
| Mentally Ill or Intellectually Disabled | Severe learning disabilities |
| 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 | ● Victim taken to vacant field, description of field ● Victim punched in face ● Victim punched in mouth dark, scarf tied around mouth ● Coat, jeans, and ring removed ● Victim shot with dark colored handgun in the mouth, scarf removed prior to shooting |
| Quotes from law enforcement testimony | Guilty Plea – No trial. “And during your conversations with Shainne Sharp and Robert Veal, did they provide details to you that indicated to you that they had been at that murder scene? A. Yes, they did.” (See Sharp). |
| Quotes from prosecution arguments | “Robert Veal had never even been out to this area before. He told you all about it. There is a broken fence we went through. There’s a bunch of tires there. When you turn by the broken fence, you go down a path. You’re going to get all the pictures back there. There’s the path they went down. There is where the body was found. It was exactly how they described it.” (And see Sharp) |
| Interrogation Recorded | Written and signed confession statement |
| Highest level reached | NR |