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Rogelio Arroyo

Years Imprisoned:	8
Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Year Convicted:	1982
Year Cleared:	1991
Location of Trial:	Illinois
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Co-defendant of Isauro Sanchez, Ignacio Varela and Joaquin Varela. Along with his three codefendants he was convicted in 1982 of a quadruple murder and sentenced to life in prison. The defendants were Hispanics who didn't speak English. Their convictions were affirmed on direct appeal. An Illinois State Police investigation that discovered three witnesses who did not testify at the trial and confirmed that the actual killers had fled to Mexico, one of whom admitted his guilt. Based on the new evidence Illinois Governor James Thompson commutted the sentences of the four defendants to time served and they were released. In 1991 Gov. Thompson granted a full pardon to the four men conditioned on their agreement not to sue Illinois for false imprisonment."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous eyewitnesses.
Innocence Proved By:	"Pardoned by Illinois Governor James Thompson based on a Illinois State Police investigation that discovered three witnesses who did not testify at the trial and confirmed that the actual killers had fled to Mexico, one of whom admitted his guilt."
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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. 283-4."
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Ethnicity/Skin:	Hispanic
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Rogelio Arroyo

Years Imprisoned:

8

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Year Convicted:

1982

Year Cleared:

1991

Location of Trial:

Illinois

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous eyewitnesses.

Innocence Proved By:

"Pardoned by Illinois Governor James Thompson based on a Illinois State Police investigation that discovered three witnesses who did not testify at the trial and confirmed that the actual killers had fled to Mexico, one of whom admitted his guilt."

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"“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. 283-4."

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Ethnicity/Skin:

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