Alejandro Dominguez

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Charge:	Rape
Sentence:	9 years
Years Imprisoned:	4
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1990
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:
City of Crime:	Waukegan
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Alejandro Dominguez was exonerated of a 1989 rape by DNA testing in 2002, eight years after being paroled from prison in 1994. Dominguez was inspired to hire lawyers and pay for the DNA testing to prove his innocence when the INS threatened to deport him based on his wrongful conviction. In August 2005, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich pardoned Dominguez on the basis of his innocence. In October 2006 a jury awarded Dominguez $9 million in his federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Waukegan, Illinois and several of its police officers who "pushed" the rape victim to select him as her assailant."
Conviction Caused By:	"Erroneous eyewitness testimony by the rape victim. Misconduct by Waukegan police officers who "pushed" the victim" into erroneously identifying Alejandro 'Dominguez."
Innocence Proved By:	DNA
Defendant Aided By:	Represented in civil lawsuit by Chicago based law firm of Loevy & Loevy.
Compensation Awarded:	"$9,000,000 (City of Waukegan, October 2006)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	16
Age When Released:	20
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	Innocence Project database
Information Location 1:	http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=107
Information Source 2:	NW School of Laws Center on Wrongful Convictions
Information Location 2:	http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/wrongful/exonerations/Dominguez-IL.htm
Information Source 3:	"Jury awards $9 million to man cleared of rape by DNA evidence, Associated Press, Belleville News-Democrat, October 17, 2006"
Information Location 3:	http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/15784274.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
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Alejandro Dominguez

Charge:

Rape

Sentence:

9 years

Years Imprisoned:

4

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1990

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Waukegan

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Erroneous eyewitness testimony by the rape victim. Misconduct by Waukegan police officers who "pushed" the victim" into erroneously identifying Alejandro 'Dominguez."

Innocence Proved By:

DNA

Defendant Aided By:

Represented in civil lawsuit by Chicago based law firm of Loevy & Loevy.

Compensation Awarded:

"$9,000,000 (City of Waukegan, October 2006)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

16

Age When Released:

20

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

Innocence Project database

Information Location 1:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=107

Information Source 2:

NW School of Laws Center on Wrongful Convictions

Information Location 2:

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/wrongful/exonerations/Dominguez-IL.htm

Information Source 3:

"Jury awards $9 million to man cleared of rape by DNA evidence, Associated Press, Belleville News-Democrat, October 17, 2006"

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http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/15784274.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

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