Lisa Marie Roberts

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Charge:	Manslaughter
Sentence:	15 years
Years Imprisoned:	10
Year Crime:	2002
Year Convicted:	2004
Year Cleared:	2014
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Oregon
County or Region of Crime:	Multnomah
City of Crime:	Portland
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Lisa Marie Roberts
Conviction Caused By:	Ineffective assistance of counsel and the prosecutor misconduct of misleading Roberts' lawyer with non-existent cell phone tower evidence.
Innocence Proved By:	"On April 9, 2014 U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Marsh granted Lisa Marie Roberts' federal writ of habeas corpus and ordered a new trial based on the ineffective assitance of her counsel in his advice to pled guilty in 2004, and the new DNA evidence identifying a man convicted of unrelated crimes as the likely killer. Lisa was released on May 28, 2014 after the Multnomah County DA decided not to retry Roberts."
Defendant Aided By:	Attorneys Steven Wax and Alison Clark in the Portland Federal Public Defenders Office.
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	37
Age When Released:	47
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Lisa Marie Roberts v. Nancy Howton, No. 3-08-cv-01433-MA (USDC OR), Opinion and Order, 4-29-2014 (Granting federal habeas)"
Information Location 1:	http://or.fd.org/Case%20Documents/Roberts%20opinion_order.pdf
Information Source 2:	"Lisa Marie Roberts v. Nancy Howton, No. 3-08-cv-01433-MA (USDC OR) - Decision not to retry 5-28-2014"
Information Location 2:	http://www.wweek.com/portland/file-711-.pdf
Information Source 3:	"Magical Mystery Tower: Where’s the evidence Rod Underhill said he had that compelled Lisa Roberts to confess to strangling her girlfriend?, By Kate Willson, Willamette Weei, June 11, 2014"
Information Location 3:	http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22676-magical_mystery_tower.html
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Lisa Marie Roberts

Charge:

Manslaughter

Sentence:

15 years

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

2002

Year Convicted:

2004

Year Cleared:

2014

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Oregon

County or Region of Crime:

Multnomah

City of Crime:

Portland

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Lisa Marie Roberts

Conviction Caused By:

Ineffective assistance of counsel and the prosecutor misconduct of misleading Roberts' lawyer with non-existent cell phone tower evidence.

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Attorneys Steven Wax and Alison Clark in the Portland Federal Public Defenders Office.

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

37

Age When Released:

47

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Lisa Marie Roberts v. Nancy Howton, No. 3-08-cv-01433-MA (USDC OR), Opinion and Order, 4-29-2014 (Granting federal habeas)"

Information Location 1:

http://or.fd.org/Case%20Documents/Roberts%20opinion_order.pdf

Information Source 2:

"Lisa Marie Roberts v. Nancy Howton, No. 3-08-cv-01433-MA (USDC OR) - Decision not to retry 5-28-2014"

Information Location 2:

http://www.wweek.com/portland/file-711-.pdf

Information Source 3:

"Magical Mystery Tower: Where’s the evidence Rod Underhill said he had that compelled Lisa Roberts to confess to strangling her girlfriend?, By Kate Willson, Willamette Weei, June 11, 2014"

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http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22676-magical_mystery_tower.html

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