Luis Carlos Arango

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	6
Year Crime:	1980
Year Convicted:	1980
Year Cleared:	1986
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Florida
County or Region of Crime:	Miami-Dade
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Luis Carlos Arango was wrongly convicted of murdering a man in his apartment by the prosecution's concealment of a handgun found under a balcony at the scene of the murder that supported Arango's explanation that three men had attacked the victim and him as part of a drug rip-off..
Conviction Caused By:	Prosecution concealment of exculpatory evidence
Innocence Proved By:	Conviction overturned by the Florida Supreme Court
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"Arango v. State, 497 So. 2d 1161, 11 Fla. Law W. 511 (Fla. 1986)"
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Luis Carlos Arango

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

6

Year Crime:

1980

Year Convicted:

1980

Year Cleared:

1986

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Florida

County or Region of Crime:

Miami-Dade

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Luis Carlos Arango was wrongly convicted of murdering a man in his apartment by the prosecution's concealment of a handgun found under a balcony at the scene of the murder that supported Arango's explanation that three men had attacked the victim and him as part of a drug rip-off..

Conviction Caused By:

Prosecution concealment of exculpatory evidence

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction overturned by the Florida Supreme Court

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

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"Arango v. State, 497 So. 2d 1161, 11 Fla. Law W. 511 (Fla. 1986)"

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