Guatemalan Male One

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	8 years
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1981
Year Convicted:	1981
Year Cleared:	1982
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Guatemala
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City of Crime:	Santiago de Atitlan
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Three Guatemalan's were wrongly convicted in 1981 of the July 28, 1981 murder American Roman Catholic priest, the Rev.Stanley Rother of Okarche, Oklahoma. The three men were sentenced to 8 years in prison. In May 1982 a Guatemalan appellate court overturned the three men's murder convictions and they were released after 9 months in incarceration. The three men were relatively small and Francisco Bocel, a man who worked at the church and had moved to the U.S., provided new evidence after the men's trial that the killers were large men. U.S. Embassy officials agreed that the three men who were friends of the Reverand Rother were likely innocent scapegoats."
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Innocence Proved By:	In May 1982 a Guatemalan appellate court overturned the three men's murder convictions and they were released after 9 months in incarceration.
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Guatemalan Male One

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

8 years

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1981

Year Convicted:

1981

Year Cleared:

1982

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Guatemala

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Santiago de Atitlan

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

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In May 1982 a Guatemalan appellate court overturned the three men's murder convictions and they were released after 9 months in incarceration.

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Male

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"Guatemalan Court Clears 3 in Slaying, By Staff and Wire Reports, The Daily Oklahoman, May 26, 1982"

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