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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Murder and Robbery |
Sentence: |
Death |
Years Imprisoned: |
9.58 |
Year Crime: |
1983 |
Year Convicted: |
1984 |
Year Cleared: |
1993 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Texas |
County or Region of Crime: |
El Paso |
City of Crime: |
El Paso |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Federico Macias was sentenced to death after being convicted in 1984 of killing an El Paso couple. His attorney never called alibi witnesses or questioned the witnesses who placed Macias at the crime scene. A New York firm took the case pro bono, found the alibi witnesses, and raised doubts about the prosecution's witnesses. A federal court overturned the conviction in 1992 based on bad lawyering. A grand jury refused to reindict, and Macias was released. (Source: Death Isn't Fair, Texas Monthly, December 2002)" |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
31 |
Age When Released: |
41 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
Hispanic |
Information Source 1: |
"Death Isn't Fair, Texas Monthly, December 2002" |
Information Location 1: |
http://truthinjustice.org/Death-Not-Fair.htm |
Information Source 2: |
Death Penalty Information Center |
Information Location 2: |
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html |
Information Source 3: |
Patrick Crusade website & database |
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http://www.patrickcrusade.org/wrongful.htm |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org