Daniel Kamacho

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	0.833
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Year Convicted:	1947
Year Cleared:	1947
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	Los Angeles
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Daniel Kamacho was wrongly convicted in March 1947 of the first-degree murder of a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff on March 11, 1946. The jury relied on Daniel Kamacho's confession in July 1946, which he claimed was false because he had been in Juarez, Mexico (across from El Paso, Texas) on the day of the murder. Kamacho was sentenced to life in prison. After his conviction Mexican authorities verified that Kamacho had been in jail in Juarez from March 3 to 11, 1946. Juarez is 810 miles from Los Angeles. Based on the new evidence corroborating his alibi, Kamacho's conviction set aside and indictment were dismissed, and he was released in May 1947 after ten months in custody."
Conviction Caused By:	"Falsely confessed to murder in Los Angeles, when he had actually been in Juarez, Mexico at the time it was committed in California. His presence in jail in Juarez on the day of the murder was verified by Mexican authorities."
Innocence Proved By:	"Conviction vacated and released in May 1947 when his alibi of being in Juarez, Mexico on the day of the crime was verified by Mexican authorities."
Defendant Aided By:	Mexican authorities verified his whereabouts at the time of the murder he was wrongly convicted of.
Compensation Awarded:	No
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 133."
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 251."
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Daniel Kamacho

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

0.833

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1947

Year Cleared:

1947

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

Los Angeles

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Falsely confessed to murder in Los Angeles, when he had actually been in Juarez, Mexico at the time it was committed in California. His presence in jail in Juarez on the day of the murder was verified by Mexican authorities."

Innocence Proved By:

"Conviction vacated and released in May 1947 when his alibi of being in Juarez, Mexico on the day of the crime was verified by Mexican authorities."

Defendant Aided By:

Mexican authorities verified his whereabouts at the time of the murder he was wrongly convicted of.

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 133."

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 251."

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