Luis Kevin Rojas

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	25 years to life imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	7.5
Year Crime:	1990
Year Convicted:	1991
Year Cleared:	1998
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
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City of Crime:	New York City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Luis Kevin Rojas was wrongfully convicted in 1991 of a murder in New York City in 1990. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Stay at home mom Lesley Risinger and her mother, lawyer Priscilla Read Chenoweth, worked pro bono on Rojas’s case for a decade and were finally able to discover new evidence that resulted in the overturning of his conviction. Rojas was acquitted in 1998 after his retrial. Rojas was wrongly imprisoned for almost eight years. Rojas filed a civil suit and the court found Rojas was innocent. Risinger later went to law school and became a lawyer. In February 2011 she was one of the co-founders of the "Last Resort Exoneration Project" sponsored by Seton Hall Law School."
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Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted after a retrial.
Defendant Aided By:	Lesley Risinger and lawyer Priscilla Read Chenoweth
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Seton Hall Law School sponsors project that aims to exonerate the wrongfully convicted in N.J., By Bob Braun (columnist), Newark Star-Ledger, February 3, 2011"
Information Location 1:	http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2011/02/organization_that_helps_exoner.html
Information Source 2:	"New York Times, October 23, 1998"
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Luis Kevin Rojas

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

25 years to life imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

7.5

Year Crime:

1990

Year Convicted:

1991

Year Cleared:

1998

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

New York City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted after a retrial.

Defendant Aided By:

Lesley Risinger and lawyer Priscilla Read Chenoweth

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

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Information Source 1:

"Seton Hall Law School sponsors project that aims to exonerate the wrongfully convicted in N.J., By Bob Braun (columnist), Newark Star-Ledger, February 3, 2011"

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http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2011/02/organization_that_helps_exoner.html

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"New York Times, October 23, 1998"

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