Jaime Chavez

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
Sentence:	15 years
Years Imprisoned:	2.67
Year Crime:	2000
Year Convicted:	2000
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
County or Region of Crime:	Dallas
City of Crime:	Dallas
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Jaime Chavez was wrongly convicted of a drug charge after being framed by Dallas, Texas Police Department officers. Chavez was arrested on February 15, 2000, and two months later he was charged with possession of cocaine. The charges were based on the testimony of police informant Enrique Martinez Alonzo, who working with Dallas PD officers, planted ground up sheetrock on innocent people that he testified was cocaine. After his conviction by a jury Chavez was sentenced to 15 years in prison. His direct appeal was denied. Reporting by CBS' 60 Minutes, the Dallas Morning News, and other media outlets exposed what Alonzo and the corrupt Dallas PD officers were doing. Alonzo signed an Affidavit that Chavez did not possess any drugs. Based on the new evidence his conviction was based on false testimony, Chavez filed a petition for a new trial that was granted. The charges were dismissed in 2003 and he was released after 2 years, 8 months, and 3 days in custody. Chavez filed a federal civil rights lawsit against the City of Dallas. In 2005 Chavez received $20,000 of his $75,000 settlement, with $55,000 going to pay his attorney's fees. At least 85 innocent people were framed by Alonzo and Dallas PD Officers involved in the fake drug "Sheetrock" cases. The Dallas PD used ground-up Sheetrock (gypsum) as a substitute for cocaine. Informant Alonzo was paid more than $200,000 by the Dallas PD for planting fake evidence on people"
Conviction Caused By:	Corrupt Dallas Police Department officers.
Innocence Proved By:	"Based on the new evidence he had been framed based on fake drugs, Chavez' conviction was overturned and he was released after 2 years, 8 months, and 3 days in custody."
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Compensation Awarded:	"$75,000 (City of Dallas, TX, 2005) (Received $20,000 with $55,000 going to attorney's fees)"
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Age When Imprisoned:	19
Age When Released:	22
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"2 Dallas Officers Indicted in Fake-Drugs Case, Eva-Marie Ayala (staff), Ft Worth Star-Telegram, April 16, 2004"
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Information Source 2:	"Fake-drug victim gets a fresh start, By Dianne Sols (Staff reporter), The Dallas Morning News, January 4, 2010"
Information Location 2:	http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20100104-Fake-drug-victim-gets-a-fresh-9906.ece
Information Source 3:	"Dinner and a Jail Term, By Jake Bernstein, The Texas Observer (Austin), December 20, 2002"
Information Location 3:	http://www.texasobserver.org/1218-dateline-texas-dinner-and-a-jail-term/
Information Source 4:	"Snow Job: Two aggressive Dallas cops. One confidential informant. Hundreds of pounds of cocaine. Fifty-three drug traffickers busted. Sound too good to be true? It was, By Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, April 2002"
Information Location 4:	http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/snow-job/
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Jaime Chavez

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

15 years

Years Imprisoned:

2.67

Year Crime:

2000

Year Convicted:

2000

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

Dallas

City of Crime:

Dallas

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Corrupt Dallas Police Department officers.

Innocence Proved By:

"Based on the new evidence he had been framed based on fake drugs, Chavez' conviction was overturned and he was released after 2 years, 8 months, and 3 days in custody."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$75,000 (City of Dallas, TX, 2005) (Received $20,000 with $55,000 going to attorney's fees)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

19

Age When Released:

22

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"2 Dallas Officers Indicted in Fake-Drugs Case, Eva-Marie Ayala (staff), Ft Worth Star-Telegram, April 16, 2004"

Information Location 1:

Information Source 2:

"Fake-drug victim gets a fresh start, By Dianne Sols (Staff reporter), The Dallas Morning News, January 4, 2010"

Information Location 2:

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20100104-Fake-drug-victim-gets-a-fresh-9906.ece

Information Source 3:

"Dinner and a Jail Term, By Jake Bernstein, The Texas Observer (Austin), December 20, 2002"

Information Location 3:

http://www.texasobserver.org/1218-dateline-texas-dinner-and-a-jail-term/

Information Source 4:

"Snow Job: Two aggressive Dallas cops. One confidential informant. Hundreds of pounds of cocaine. Fifty-three drug traffickers busted. Sound too good to be true? It was, By Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, April 2002"

Information Location 4:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/snow-job/

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