Christopher McCrimmon

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	5
Year Crime:	1992
Year Convicted:	1993
Year Cleared:	1997
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Arizona
County or Region of Crime:	Pima
City of Crime:	Tucson
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Christopher McCrimmon was co-defendant of Andre Minnitt. They were wrongly convicted in 1993 of a triple murder and sentenced to death. Minnitt and McCrimmon's convictions were overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court in 1996 based on juror coercion. McCrimmon was acquitted by a jury that deliberated for 42 minutes after a retrial in 1997, while the jury couldn't reach a verdict about Minnitt. Minnitt was tried for a third time in 1999, and after his conviction of murder he was again sentenced to death. Minnitt appealed and argued his third trial violated his right against double jeopardy because of prejudicial prosecutorial misconduct during his first two trials. On October 11, 2002 the Arizona Supreme Court vacated Minnitt's conviction and ordered dismissal of the charges with prejudice because the prosecutor committed misconduct "with knowing indifference to the danger of mistrial or reversal, if not a specific intent to cause a mistrial." (State v. Minnitt, 55 P. 3d 774 (Ariz. Sup Ct 2002)) Their codefendant Martin Soto-Fong convicted in 1993 in a separate trial protests his innocence but he remains in prison as of January 1, 2014."
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Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted by a jury that deliberated for 42 minutes after a retrial in 1997.
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Age When Imprisoned:	20
Age When Released:	25
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Killer Instincts: Did A Famous Prosecutor Put the Wrong man on Death Row, Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, January 17, 2005, pg. 54 (10) (54-63)."
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Information Source 2:	"State v. Minnitt, 55 P. 3d 774 (Ariz. Sup Ct 2002)"
Information Location 2:	"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9667739866347475513&q=Andre+Minnitt&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"
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Christopher McCrimmon

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

1992

Year Convicted:

1993

Year Cleared:

1997

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Arizona

County or Region of Crime:

Pima

City of Crime:

Tucson

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted by a jury that deliberated for 42 minutes after a retrial in 1997.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

20

Age When Released:

25

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

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"Killer Instincts: Did A Famous Prosecutor Put the Wrong man on Death Row, Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, January 17, 2005, pg. 54 (10) (54-63)."

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"State v. Minnitt, 55 P. 3d 774 (Ariz. Sup Ct 2002)"

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"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9667739866347475513&q=Andre+Minnitt&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"

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