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Timothy Kennedy

Years Imprisoned:	13
Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Year Convicted:	1997
Year Cleared:	2009
Location of Trial:	Colorado
Result:	Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)
Summary of Case:	Wrongly convicted in 1997 of the 1991 murder of 15-year-old Jennifer Carpenter and her 37-year-old boyfriend, Steve Staskiewicz. Timothy Kennedy was sentenced to life in prison. Touch DNA testing unavailable at the time of Kennedy's trial excluded him as the assailant, and Kenney filed a motion for a new trial based on the new evidence and other exculpatory evidence the prosecution didn't disclose prior to his trial. On April 21, 2009 El Paso County District Judge Thomas Kane, who presided at Kennedy's original trial, overturned Kennedy's convictions and life sentences, citing flawed evidence, prosecutors' failure to turn over evidence to the defense, and a lack of DNA evidence. Among the new evidence was the comparative bullet lead analysis relied on by the prosecution that is now discredited as junk science. On May 29, 2009 Kennedy was released on $250,000 bail.
Conviction Caused By:	Prosecution misconduct of failing to disclose exculpatory evidence.
Innocence Proved By:	On April 21, 2009 El Paso County District Judge Thomas Kane, who presided at Kennedy's original trial, overturned Kennedy's convictions and life sentences,
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Age When Imprisoned:	39
Age When Released:	52
Information Source 1:	Savoring taste of freedom after 14 years behind bars, Susan Greene, Denver Post, May 31, 2009
Information Location 1:	http://www.denverpost.com/greene/ci_12486652
Information Source 2:	Bail, new trial date set in overturned murder case, By P. Solomon Banda, Denver Post, May 26, 2009
Information Location 2:	http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12450026
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Ethnicity/Skin:	White
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Timothy Kennedy

Years Imprisoned:

13

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Year Convicted:

1997

Year Cleared:

2009

Location of Trial:

Colorado

Result:

Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Prosecution misconduct of failing to disclose exculpatory evidence.

Innocence Proved By:

On April 21, 2009 El Paso County District Judge Thomas Kane, who presided at Kennedy's original trial, overturned Kennedy's convictions and life sentences,

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Found?

Age When Imprisoned:

39

Age When Released:

52

Information Source 1:

Savoring taste of freedom after 14 years behind bars, Susan Greene, Denver Post, May 31, 2009

Information Location 1:

http://www.denverpost.com/greene/ci_12486652

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Bail, new trial date set in overturned murder case, By P. Solomon Banda, Denver Post, May 26, 2009

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12450026

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White

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