Michael Clancy

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	25 years to life in prison
Years Imprisoned:	11
Year Crime:	1997
Year Convicted:	1999
Year Cleared:	2009
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
County or Region of Crime:	Bronx
City of Crime:	New York City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Michael Clancy was wrongly convicted of the 1997 of a drug dealer in a Bronx, New York pizza parlor. Clancy lived in the neighborhood of the shooting, and he was arrested a week after the murder based on his identification by two eyewitness in the pizza parlor. Clancy's conviction by a jury was based on those witnesses in-court identification of him. Clancy was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. After a new witness came forward naming the actual shooter and that Clancy was not in the pizza parlor, Clancy filed a motion for a new trial. On April 2, 2008 Clancy was released on a $50,000 bond when Bronx Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle found the witnesses new evidence credible and in a 45-page decision vacated Clancy's conviction. The charges were dismissed on February 23, 2009 after the Bronx District Attorney declined to retry Clancy. Clancy was wrongly imprisoned for almost 11 years. Less than a week after Clancy's conviction was overturned, Andrew DeJesus was arrested and charged with the murder based on the new witnesses evidence, along with another witness who came forward identifying that DeJesus was the actual shooter. On September 26, 2012 Clancy was paid $2 million by the State of New York to settle his wrongful imprisonment claim."
Conviction Caused By:	Eyewitness misidentification by two eyewitnesses.
Innocence Proved By:	"The charges were dismissed on February 23, 2009 after the Bronx District Attorney declined to retry Clancy."
Defendant Aided By:	New York attorney Ronald L. Kuby.
Compensation Awarded:	"$2 mil. (State of New York, Sept. 26, 2012)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	23
Age When Released:	34
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"After Testimony, Murder Charge Is Dropped, By James Barron (staff), The New York Times, February 23, 2009"
Information Location 1:	http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/nyregion/24clancy.html
Information Source 2:	"Bronx man released from Rikers after murder conviction overturned, By Staff Writers, New York Daily News, April 3, 2008"
Information Location 2:	http://articles.nydailynews.com/2008-04-03/local/17895486_1_bronx-zoo-murder-conviction-bronx-man
Information Source 3:	"Suspect Arrested in 1997 Murder, By James Barron (Staff), The New York Times, February 26, 2009"
Information Location 3:	http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/nyregion/27arrest.html
Information Source 4:	"State Pays $2 Million to Settle Man’s Wrongful Conviction, By James Barronoct (Staff), The New York Times, October 1, 2012"
Information Location 4:	http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/nyregion/ny-state-pays-2-million-for-wrongful-conviction.html?_r=1
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Michael Clancy

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

25 years to life in prison

Years Imprisoned:

11

Year Crime:

1997

Year Convicted:

1999

Year Cleared:

2009

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

Bronx

City of Crime:

New York City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness misidentification by two eyewitnesses.

Innocence Proved By:

"The charges were dismissed on February 23, 2009 after the Bronx District Attorney declined to retry Clancy."

Defendant Aided By:

New York attorney Ronald L. Kuby.

Compensation Awarded:

"$2 mil. (State of New York, Sept. 26, 2012)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

23

Age When Released:

34

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"After Testimony, Murder Charge Is Dropped, By James Barron (staff), The New York Times, February 23, 2009"

Information Location 1:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/nyregion/24clancy.html

Information Source 2:

"Bronx man released from Rikers after murder conviction overturned, By Staff Writers, New York Daily News, April 3, 2008"

Information Location 2:

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2008-04-03/local/17895486_1_bronx-zoo-murder-conviction-bronx-man

Information Source 3:

"Suspect Arrested in 1997 Murder, By James Barron (Staff), The New York Times, February 26, 2009"

Information Location 3:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/nyregion/27arrest.html

Information Source 4:

"State Pays $2 Million to Settle Man’s Wrongful Conviction, By James Barronoct (Staff), The New York Times, October 1, 2012"

Information Location 4:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/nyregion/ny-state-pays-2-million-for-wrongful-conviction.html?_r=1

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