Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros

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Charge:	Driving hit and run
Sentence:	3 years probation
Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:	2013
Year Convicted:	2014
Year Cleared:	2017
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Oregon
County or Region of Crime:	Washington
City of Crime:	Forest Grove
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros was convicted on January 15, 2014 of two counts of felony hit and run for leaving the scene of where she ran over and killed two step-sisters with the car she was driving in Forest Grove, Oregon on October 20, 2013. Cinthya was a Mexican illegal alien who lived a block away from where she ran Anna Dieter-Eckerdt, 6, and Abigail Robinson, 11, in front of their home. The girls had been racking leaves with their dad, and moments after he went into their house to get a camera he heard screams from the girls. He found they had been run over by the side of the street where they were racking the leaves. Anna died at the scene, and Abigail later died at the Portland hospital where she had been taken. Garcia-Cisneros and none of her relatives contacted the police about what she had done -- even though they knew. When police were able to identify her as a suspect, she told them several different stories: first telling them she thought she had hit a pot hole, and then that she thought she hit a "rock." The jury deliberated less than two hours before convicting her. On January 31, 2014 she was sentenced to three years probation. She appealed her conviction and sentence. On September 14, 2017 the Oregon Supreme Court declined to review the Oregon Court of Appeals reversal on May 3, 2017 of Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros's conviction on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence to prove she knew she had run over the girls, and then fled."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On September 14, 2017 the Oregon Supreme Court declined to review the Oregon Court of Appeals reversal on May 3, 2017 of Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros's conviction on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence to prove she knew she had run over the girls and fled."
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Age When Imprisoned:	18
Age When Released:	18
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"State v. Garcia-Cisneros, 285 Or App 252, No. a156387 (OR Ct of Appeals, 5-3-2017) (Vacating conviction on insufficient prosecution evidence of guilt.)"
Information Location 1:	http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A156387.pdf
Information Source 2:	"Driver who ran over girls playing in leaf pile has conviction overturned, By Everton Bailey Jr., The Oregonian (Portland), May 4, 2017"
Information Location 2:	http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2017/05/driver_who_ran_over_girls_play.html
Information Source 3:	"Decision overturning conviction stands for driver who ran over girls in leaf pile, By Everton Bailey Jr., The Oregonian (Portland), September 15, 2017"
Information Location 3:	http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2017/09/decision_overturning_convictio.html
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Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros

Charge:

Driving hit and run

Sentence:

3 years probation

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2017

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Oregon

County or Region of Crime:

Washington

City of Crime:

Forest Grove

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On September 14, 2017 the Oregon Supreme Court declined to review the Oregon Court of Appeals reversal on May 3, 2017 of Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros's conviction on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence to prove she knew she had run over the girls and fled."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

18

Age When Released:

18

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"State v. Garcia-Cisneros, 285 Or App 252, No. a156387 (OR Ct of Appeals, 5-3-2017) (Vacating conviction on insufficient prosecution evidence of guilt.)"

Information Location 1:

http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A156387.pdf

Information Source 2:

"Driver who ran over girls playing in leaf pile has conviction overturned, By Everton Bailey Jr., The Oregonian (Portland), May 4, 2017"

Information Location 2:

http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2017/05/driver_who_ran_over_girls_play.html

Information Source 3:

"Decision overturning conviction stands for driver who ran over girls in leaf pile, By Everton Bailey Jr., The Oregonian (Portland), September 15, 2017"

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http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2017/09/decision_overturning_convictio.html

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