Ricardo Aldape Guerra

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	15
Year Crime:	1982
Year Convicted:	1982
Year Cleared:	1997
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
County or Region of Crime:	Harris
City of Crime:	Houston
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Ricardo Aldape Guerra was wrongly convicted of murder based on the prosecution using six unreliable witnesses. After 15 years imprisonment, 14 on Texas' death row, a federal judge overturned Guerra's conviction and he was released in April 1997. The judge described as "outrageous" the police misconduct in Guerra's case. He immediately returned to Mexico, where only 128 days after his release he was hit by a car and killed."
Conviction Caused By:	"Eyewitness error by six prosecution witnesses. Prosecutorial misconduct of using unreliable witnesses. The federal judge who overturned Guerra's conviction called the police misconduct "outrageous.""
Innocence Proved By:	Reversal of his conviction by Texas judge on basis the prosecution relied on unrelable witnesses..
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	20
Age When Released:	35
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"Death Isn't Fair, Texas Monthly, December 2002"
Information Location 1:	http://truthinjustice.org/Death-Not-Fair.htm
Information Source 2:	Death Penalty Information Center
Information Location 2:	http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html
Information Source 3:	Deathrow.at database
Information Location 3:	http://www.deathrow.at/polunsky/nolonger/guerra.html
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Ricardo Aldape Guerra

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

15

Year Crime:

1982

Year Convicted:

1982

Year Cleared:

1997

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

Harris

City of Crime:

Houston

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Eyewitness error by six prosecution witnesses. Prosecutorial misconduct of using unreliable witnesses. The federal judge who overturned Guerra's conviction called the police misconduct "outrageous.""

Innocence Proved By:

Reversal of his conviction by Texas judge on basis the prosecution relied on unrelable witnesses..

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

20

Age When Released:

35

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"Death Isn't Fair, Texas Monthly, December 2002"

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http://truthinjustice.org/Death-Not-Fair.htm

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Death Penalty Information Center

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html

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Deathrow.at database

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http://www.deathrow.at/polunsky/nolonger/guerra.html

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