Napoleon Cardenas

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Charge:	Attempted Robbery
Sentence:	15 to 30 years
Years Imprisoned:	8
Year Crime:	1994
Year Convicted:	1999
Year Cleared:	2007
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
County or Region of Crime:	Queens
City of Crime:	New York City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Carlos Cardenas and Napoleon Cardenas were brothers and codefendants wrongly convicted of being involved in the 1994 robbery of $1.5 million in black pearls robbed at gun point from three jewelers in New York City. Carlos was convicted in 1996 and sentenced to 8 to 25 years in prison, and Napoleon was convicted in 1999 and sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison. In 2006 several persons imprisoned for unrelated crimes provided the new evidence that the Cardenas brothers weren't involved in the robbery. The Cardenas brothers also passed polygraph tests. Based on the new evidence of their actual innocence the Cardenas brothers filed motions for a new trial which were granted in January 2007 and the brothers were released. The brothers filed a federal civil rights lawsuit which was settled for a payment of $400,000 to Carlos Cardenas and $800,000 to Napoleon Cardenas."
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Innocence Proved By:	Based on the new evidence of their actual innocence the Cardenas brothers filed motions for a new trial which were granted in January 2007 and the brothers were released.
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Compensation Awarded:	"$800,000 (City of New York)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	29
Age When Released:	37
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"Napoleon Cardenas, The National Registry of Exonerations"
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Napoleon Cardenas

Charge:

Attempted Robbery

Sentence:

15 to 30 years

Years Imprisoned:

8

Year Crime:

1994

Year Convicted:

1999

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

Queens

City of Crime:

New York City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Based on the new evidence of their actual innocence the Cardenas brothers filed motions for a new trial which were granted in January 2007 and the brothers were released.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$800,000 (City of New York)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

29

Age When Released:

37

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

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"Napoleon Cardenas, The National Registry of Exonerations"

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https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3088

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