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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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1 |
Charge: |
Manslaughter |
Sentence: |
Exonerated After Conviction But Prior to Sentencing |
Year Convicted: |
1965 |
Year
Cleared:
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1965 |
Location
of Trial:
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New York |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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"Wrongly convicted of manslaughter in the death of a boy during a street fight based on eyewitness testimony. After his conviction Arroyo's lawyer produced a number of eyewitnesses who testified they saw someone else kill the boy, and the witnesses against Arroyo recanted their testimony. The judge vacated Arroyo's conviction and he was released and the indictment against him was dismissed. In 1966 another man was arrested and indicted for the murder." |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Perjurious eyewitness testimony. |
Innocence
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New eyewitnesses and recanted witnesses.
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Information Source 1: |
"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 283." |
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"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 92+." |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Hispanic |
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