# Shareef Cousin

Overturned · 1996

Shareef Cousin (born 1979) is an African-American man from New Orleans who was convicted of the first-degree murder of Michael Gerardi in 1996 and sentenced to death as a juvenile in Louisiana. At age 17, he became the youngest condemned convict to be sent to death row in Louisiana, and one of the youngest in the United States. Cousin was convicted of Gerardi's murder on the basis of three eyewitnesses.

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=8933037
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/shareef-cousin-w8933037

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1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=8933037


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