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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Rape |
Sentence: |
75 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
17 |
Year Crime: |
1987 |
Year Convicted: |
1987 |
Year Cleared: |
2005 |
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: |
"Brandon Moon was wrongly convicted of aggravated sexual assault in 1987 based on erroneous eyewitness testimony and erroneous expert testimony by a DPS lab expert that crime scene blood evidence linked Moon to the crime. In 2004, DNA test unavailable at the time of Moon's conviction excluded him as the woman's attacker. Released on December 21, 2004, after 17 years of wrongful imprisonment." |
Conviction Caused By: |
Erroneous eyewitness testimony and erroneous expert testimony by a DPS lab expert that crime scene blood evidence linked Moon to the crime. |
Innocence Proved By: |
Conviction vacated in 2005 after DNA tests excluded Moon as the assailant |
Defendant Aided By: |
Innocence Project NY |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
26 |
Age When Released: |
43 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
Black |
Information Source 1: |
El Pasoan to be exonerated of crime after spending 17 years in prison |
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http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20041221-2544.shtml |
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"Bad dna test took years of his life, Maurice Possley, Chicago Tribune, December 21, 2004" |
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"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0412210293dec21,1,5033437.story?ctrack=1&cset=true" |
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