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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
45 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
22.5 |
Year Crime: |
1993 |
Year Convicted: |
1996 |
Year Cleared: |
2018 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Illinois |
County or Region of Crime: |
Cook |
City of Crime: |
Chicago |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Robert Bouto was wrongly convicted of a murder committed in May 1993 in Chicago, Illinois. Jakes conviction was based on his confession to Chicago Police Department Det. Reynaldo Guevara. Jakes recanted his confession as false and coerced by his police interrogators. After his conviction by a jury Jakes was sentenced to prison. Jakes was released on parole in 2015. Bouto filed a post-conviction motion for a new trial based on evidence that Guevara had coerced false confessions from suspects. Robert Bouto's conviction was vacated on April 30, 2018. The Cook's County State's Attorney's Office declined to retry Bouto, and their motion to dismiss the charges was granted on June 25, 2018. Bouto was granted a certificate of innocence and awarded $230,000 under Illinois' wrongful conviction statute. On April 11, 2019 Bouto filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Chicago, Cook County, Guevara, and seven other officers, accusing the defendants of conspiring to manufacture evidence and deprive him of his constitutional rights." |
Conviction Caused By: |
"False confession coerced by Chicago Police Department Detective Reynaldo Guevara. Guevara fabricated testimony and evidence to implicate suspects in a crime that included diecting witnesses who to pick out of a lineup, and extracting false confessions by beatings and torture. As of November 2019 14 men had their convictions overturned and charges dismissed or acquitted after a retrial due to Guevara's criminal conduct: Juan Johnson in 2004; Jacques Rivera in 2011; Jose Montanez and Armando Serrano in July 2016; Robert Almodovar and William Negron in April 2017; Jose Maysonet in November 2017; Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes in December 2017; Thomas Sierra in January 2018; Ariel Gomez in February 2018; Ricardo Rodriguez in March 2018; Robert Bouto in June 2018; and, Geraldo Iglesias in January 2019." |
Innocence Proved By: |
"Robert Bouto's conviction was vacated on April 30, 2018. The Cook's County State's Attorney's Office said he would be retried." |
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Compensation Awarded: |
"$230,000 (State of Illinois, 2019)" |
Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
17 |
Age When Released: |
39 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"2 men wrongly imprisoned as teens have convictions vacated, By Sarah Schulte (Staff reporter), ABC7 (Chicago, IL), April 30, 2018" |
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http://abc7chicago.com/2-men-wrongly-imprisoned-as-teens-have-convictions-vacated/3410907/ |
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"‘I Want My Life Back’; Framed For 1993 Murder, Robert Bouto Sues City, Disgraced Former CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara, By Staff, CBS Chicago, April 11, 2019" |
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https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/04/11/robert-bouto-wrongful-conviction-lawsuit-former-detective-reynaldo-guevara/ |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org