Gyronne Buckley

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment - then resentenced to 56 years
Years Imprisoned:	11.5
Year Crime:	1999
Year Convicted:	1999
Year Cleared:	2010
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Arkansas
County or Region of Crime:	Clark
City of Crime:	Arkadelphia
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Gyronne Buckley was wrongly convicted in May 1999 of two counts of delivering a controlled substance. The prosecution's key evidence was testimony by a police informant. After his conviction by a jury Buckley was sentenced to two terms of life in prison. In affirming his convictions in 2000 the Arkansas Supreme Court remanded him for resentencing that resulted in his resentencing to two consecutive 28 year prison terms. Post-conviction Buckley discovered documentary and videotape evidence supporting that the informant had been coached to commit perjury by the lead police officer involved in Buckley's case. Based on the prosecutorial misconduct of the failure to disclose the favorable evidence Buckley's conviction was vacated on November 1, 2010, the charges were dismissed, and he was released after 11-1-2 years of imprisonment. Buckley was awarded compensation of $460,000 on December 17, 2013 by the Arkansas Claims Commission. On July 8, 2014 an Arkansas legislative panel reversed the Commission's ruling and dismissed Buckley's claim on the basis that he was not found "not guilty." Buckley's filed a federal civil rights lawsuit that was dismissed."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Gyronne Buckley's conviction was vacated on November 1, 2010, the charges were dismissed, and he was released after 11-1-2 years of imprisonment."
Defendant Aided By:	"Tom Sullivan, a professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School,"
Compensation Awarded:	Denied by State of Arkansas and federal civil rights lawsuit dismissed.
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	44
Age When Released:	55
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Man awarded $460,000 in wrongful conviction claim, By Rob Moritz (Arkansas News Bureau), The Commercial (Pine Bluff), December 17, 2013"
Information Location 1:	http://pbcommercial.com/news/state/man-awarded-460000-wrongful-conviction-claim
Information Source 2:	"Arkansas State Claims Commission, Docket for Dec. 12 &13, 2013"
Information Location 2:	http://claimscommission.ar.gov/myweb/December%202013.docx
Information Source 3:	"“Brady-Based Prosecutorial Misconduct Claims, Buckley, and the Arkansas Coram Nobis Remedy,” By Law Professor J. Thomas Sullivan, 561 Arkansas Law Review 64)"
Information Location 3:	http://lawreview.law.uark.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Sullivan.pdf
Information Source 4:	"Arkansas lawmakers reject $460K claim for man whose drug conviction was vacated over evidence, By Andrew DeMillo (AP reporter), The Republic (Columbus, Indiana) July 8, 2014"
Information Location 4:	http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/c80cd879a0544e19a4a99fda53b48579/AR--Conviction-Vacated-Claim
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Gyronne Buckley

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment - then resentenced to 56 years

Years Imprisoned:

11.5

Year Crime:

1999

Year Convicted:

1999

Year Cleared:

2010

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Arkansas

County or Region of Crime:

Clark

City of Crime:

Arkadelphia

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Gyronne Buckley's conviction was vacated on November 1, 2010, the charges were dismissed, and he was released after 11-1-2 years of imprisonment."

Defendant Aided By:

"Tom Sullivan, a professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School,"

Compensation Awarded:

Denied by State of Arkansas and federal civil rights lawsuit dismissed.

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

44

Age When Released:

55

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Man awarded $460,000 in wrongful conviction claim, By Rob Moritz (Arkansas News Bureau), The Commercial (Pine Bluff), December 17, 2013"

Information Location 1:

http://pbcommercial.com/news/state/man-awarded-460000-wrongful-conviction-claim

Information Source 2:

"Arkansas State Claims Commission, Docket for Dec. 12 &13, 2013"

Information Location 2:

http://claimscommission.ar.gov/myweb/December%202013.docx

Information Source 3:

"“Brady-Based Prosecutorial Misconduct Claims, Buckley, and the Arkansas Coram Nobis Remedy,” By Law Professor J. Thomas Sullivan, 561 Arkansas Law Review 64)"

Information Location 3:

http://lawreview.law.uark.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Sullivan.pdf

Information Source 4:

"Arkansas lawmakers reject $460K claim for man whose drug conviction was vacated over evidence, By Andrew DeMillo (AP reporter), The Republic (Columbus, Indiana) July 8, 2014"

Information Location 4:

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/c80cd879a0544e19a4a99fda53b48579/AR--Conviction-Vacated-Claim

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