Louis Santos

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	3
Year Crime:	1983
Year Convicted:	1985
Year Cleared:	1990
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Massachusetts
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Louis Santos was wrongly convicted in 1985 of being one of three assailants who murdered a woman, based on an eyewitnesses identification. Louis Santos was sentenced to life in prison. Santos' conviction was overturned in 1988 by the Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court because Santos identification at police headquarters by a witness was "unduly suggestive" by the police. The SJC ordered Santos' retrial, and he was released on bail pending his retrial. Louis Santos was acquitted after a retrial in 1990. Santos was wrongly imprisoned for three years. In 2005 Louis Santos filed a claim for compensation from the State of Massachusetts under G.L.C. 258D, and his claim was settled in 2007 for $250,000."
Conviction Caused By:	"Police misconduct of unduly influencing the "eyewitness" who identified Louis Santos."
Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted by a jury after a retrial in 1990.
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Compensation Awarded:	"$250,000 (State of Massachusetts, 2007)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	23
Age When Released:	26
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Retrial Clears Man of a 1983 Murder, by Doris Sue Wong (Globe Staff), The Boston Globe, March 17, 1990"
Information Location 1:	http://www.nodp.org/ma/stacks/l_santos.html
Information Source 2:	"Wrongful Murder Convictions in Massachusetts, March 22, 2006"
Information Location 2:	http://www.nodp.org/ma/mass_mistake.html
Information Source 3:	"Santos, Louis v. Commonwealth, SUCV2005-03244 (Claim for compensation from the State of Massachusetts under G.L.C. 258D, settled in 2007 for $500,000.)"
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Louis Santos

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

1983

Year Convicted:

1985

Year Cleared:

1990

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Massachusetts

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Police misconduct of unduly influencing the "eyewitness" who identified Louis Santos."

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted by a jury after a retrial in 1990.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$250,000 (State of Massachusetts, 2007)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

23

Age When Released:

26

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Retrial Clears Man of a 1983 Murder, by Doris Sue Wong (Globe Staff), The Boston Globe, March 17, 1990"

Information Location 1:

http://www.nodp.org/ma/stacks/l_santos.html

Information Source 2:

"Wrongful Murder Convictions in Massachusetts, March 22, 2006"

Information Location 2:

http://www.nodp.org/ma/mass_mistake.html

Information Source 3:

"Santos, Louis v. Commonwealth, SUCV2005-03244 (Claim for compensation from the State of Massachusetts under G.L.C. 258D, settled in 2007 for $500,000.)"

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