Case Auer / Ranneth
Huberth Ranneth and Josef Auer , both Austrians, had been charged with murdering three work colleagues. They had initially confessed, but revoked the confession at the trial. Nevertheless, they were sentenced to imprisonment in the 1950 trial - due to the uncritical evaluation of the confession. The false confession was obtained by a dose of scopolamine during interrogation . As a result, they were innocently imprisoned for 14 years.
The journalist Gustaf Adolf Neumann exposed the miscarriage of justice . On May 15, 1963, the then Austrian Justice Minister Christian Broda announced a peccavi (Latin = I have sinned) on television .
In 1966 Gedeon Kovács made the television film Der Fall Auer / Ranneth - Innocent Behind Bars about it with Bruno Dallansky as Auer and Hugo Gottschlich as Ranneth.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Summa Iniuria: A Pitaval of Mistakes of Justice , p. 240
- ↑ Article in Der Spiegel , April 28, 1965
- ↑ Summa Iniuria , ibidem.
Web links
- Case Auer / Ranneth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Auer / Ranneth case in the online film database