Oscar Ochoa

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
Sentence:	3 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	1997
Year Convicted:	1998
Year Cleared:	2000
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	Los Angeles
City of Crime:	Los Angeles
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Oscar Ochoa was wrongly convicted in 1998 of drug charges in Los Angeles, California. Ochoa pled guilty based on fabricated evidence by Los Angeles Police Officer Rafael Perez, who was a member of the Ramparts Division. Ochoa's conviction was overturned in 2000 based on Perez' admission that he and other Rampart officers engaged in misconduct to obtain convictions. Ochoa filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and the LAPD that the Los Angeles City Council voted on February 19, 2002 to agree to settle for $475,000. At least 171 persons had their wrongful conviction overturned as a result of the Rampart scandal."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Investigation of the LAPD's Ramparts division that uncovered that more than 100 innocent people were framed by police officers and wrongly prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned."
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Compensation Awarded:	"$475,000 (City of Los Angeles, 2-19-2002)"
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"L.A. pays $2.8 million to settle seven police corruption lawsuits, By Paco, Feb. 22, 2002"
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Oscar Ochoa

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

3 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

1997

Year Convicted:

1998

Year Cleared:

2000

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

Los Angeles

City of Crime:

Los Angeles

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Investigation of the LAPD's Ramparts division that uncovered that more than 100 innocent people were framed by police officers and wrongly prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$475,000 (City of Los Angeles, 2-19-2002)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"L.A. pays $2.8 million to settle seven police corruption lawsuits, By Paco, Feb. 22, 2002"

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http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/02/15069.php

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