Domingo Mes

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	20 years
Years Imprisoned:	3.9
Year Crime:	2002
Year Convicted:	2005
Year Cleared:	2006
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Belize
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in March 2005 of the April 2002 machette murder of a friend. Mes' conviction was based on a statement at the time of his arrest that police interpreted as incriminating. On March 20, 2006, the Belize Court of Appeals quashed Mes' conviction based on evidence that another man, also convicted of the murder and given a life sentence, had committed the murder alone as the result of an argument. Mes had simply witnessed the murder, and that was insufficient to make him criminally liable."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Belize's Court of Appeals quashed Mes' conviction on March 20, 2006."
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Age When Imprisoned:	21
Age When Released:	25
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"Appeals Court Frees Red Bank Villager From 20-Year Jail Rap, by Angel Novelo (staff), The Reporter, Belize City, Belize, March 24, 2006"
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Domingo Mes

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

20 years

Years Imprisoned:

3.9

Year Crime:

2002

Year Convicted:

2005

Year Cleared:

2006

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Belize

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Belize's Court of Appeals quashed Mes' conviction on March 20, 2006."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

21

Age When Released:

25

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

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"Appeals Court Frees Red Bank Villager From 20-Year Jail Rap, by Angel Novelo (staff), The Reporter, Belize City, Belize, March 24, 2006"

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