Thomas Sierra

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Charge:	First Degree Murder and Firearm violation
Sentence:	55 years
Years Imprisoned:	22.5
Year Crime:	1995
Year Convicted:	1997
Year Cleared:	2018
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:	Cook
City of Crime:	Chicago
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Thomas Sierra was wrongly convicted in 1997 of first-degree murder and a firearm violation committed in Cook County, Illinois in 1995. After his conviction Sierra was sentenced to 55 years. Sierra was exonerated in 2018."
Conviction Caused By:	"Chicago Police Department Detective Reynaldo Guevara fabricated testimony and evidence to implicate suspects in a crime that included diecting witnesses who to pick out of a lineup, and extracting false confessions by beatings and torture. As of November 2019 14 men had their convictions overturned and charges dismissed or acquitted after a retrial due to Guevara's criminal conduct: Juan Johnson in 2004; Jacques Rivera in 2011; Jose Montanez and Armando Serrano in July 2016; Robert Almodovar and William Negron in April 2017; Jose Maysonet in November 2017; Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes in December 2017; Thomas Sierra in January 2018; Ariel Gomez in February 2018; Ricardo Rodriguez in March 2018; Robert Bouto in June 2018; and, Geraldo Iglesias in January 2019."
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Defendant Aided By:	"Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago Law School, and attorneys Steven Art; Joshua Tepfer; and Anand Swaminathan."
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Age When Imprisoned:	19
Age When Released:	41
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"Chicago man exonerated after 22 years in prison, By AFP, Daily Nation, May 1, 2018"
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Thomas Sierra

Charge:

First Degree Murder and Firearm violation

Sentence:

55 years

Years Imprisoned:

22.5

Year Crime:

1995

Year Convicted:

1997

Year Cleared:

2018

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Cook

City of Crime:

Chicago

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

"Thomas Sierra was wrongly convicted in 1997 of first-degree murder and a firearm violation committed in Cook County, Illinois in 1995. After his conviction Sierra was sentenced to 55 years. Sierra was exonerated in 2018."

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

"Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago Law School, and attorneys Steven Art; Joshua Tepfer; and Anand Swaminathan."

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

19

Age When Released:

41

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"Chicago man exonerated after 22 years in prison, By AFP, Daily Nation, May 1, 2018"

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https://www.nation.co.ke/news/world/Chicago-man-exonerated-after-22-years-in-prison/1068-4538540-14afc1xz/

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