Paris Carriger

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	20
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1978
Year Cleared:	1997
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Arizona
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Paris Carriger came within hours on Dec. 6, 1995 of being executed for a murder he didn't commit. The real killer confessed in 1987, but Carriger had exhausted his state appeals, and Arizona state courts refused to grant him a new trial. Publicity, over a 1,000 letters to appeals court judges about his impending execution for a murder he didn't commit, and a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision influenced the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to issue a stay just hours before his scheduled execution on Dec. 6, 1995. A 3-judge appeals court panel ruled in 1996 that "serious doubts" about Carriger's guilt were insufficient to reverse his conviction, but the 9th Circuit en banc ruled on Dec. 17, 1997 that no reasonable juror that could convict Carriger in the absence of any evidence he committed the crime, and reversed his conviction."
Conviction Caused By:
Innocence Proved By:	Confession by the actual killer in 1987.
Defendant Aided By:	"Boston Globe columnist encouraged his readers to write judges on the 9th Cir. to stay Carrigers scheduled execution in 1995, which was stayed with only hours to spare."
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	""Your letters made a difference: Paris Carriger is free," James Carroll, The Boston Globe, Feb. 2, 1999."
Information Location 1:	http://www.truthinjustice.org/carriger.htm
Information Source 2:	"Carriger v. Stewart, No. 9599025v2, Dec. 17, 1997"
Information Location 2:	http://www.truthinjustice.org/carrigercase.htm
Information Source 3:	692 P.2d 991
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Information Source 4:	645 P.2d 816
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Paris Carriger

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

20

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1978

Year Cleared:

1997

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Arizona

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Confession by the actual killer in 1987.

Defendant Aided By:

"Boston Globe columnist encouraged his readers to write judges on the 9th Cir. to stay Carrigers scheduled execution in 1995, which was stayed with only hours to spare."

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

""Your letters made a difference: Paris Carriger is free," James Carroll, The Boston Globe, Feb. 2, 1999."

Information Location 1:

http://www.truthinjustice.org/carriger.htm

Information Source 2:

"Carriger v. Stewart, No. 9599025v2, Dec. 17, 1997"

Information Location 2:

http://www.truthinjustice.org/carrigercase.htm

Information Source 3:

692 P.2d 991

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645 P.2d 816

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