MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE
IN POTENTIALLY CAPITAL CASES (1987)
by Hugo Adam Bedau and Michael L. Radelet

Excerpt from Appendix A: Catalogue of Defendants

BARBATO, JOSEPH (white). 1929. New York. Barbato was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. The conviction was reversed after evidence showed that Barbato’s 4-word confession had been coerced.1 A physician’s report verified that Barbato had been beaten while in custody. Following a recommendation by the prosecutor, the trial judge released him; Barbato had already spent six months in prison.2

Footnotes

1. People v. Barbato, 254 N.Y. 170, 172 N.E. 458 (1930).
 
2. See generally N.Y. Times, Nov. 27, 1930, at 25, col. 7.