Alberto Sifuentes

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	12
Year Crime:	1996
Year Convicted:	1998
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
County or Region of Crime:	Lamb
City of Crime:	Littlefield
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Alberto Sifuentes and Jesus Ramirez were codefendants wrongly convicted in 1998 of murder after separate trials in Lamb County, Texas. State habeas corpus petition were granted to both men in August 2007 based on ineffective assistance of their trial counsel for failing to adequately investigate their case. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the ruling on January 16, 2008. A grand jury declined to reindict either man, and on April 29, 2008 they were released from prison. The men filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in 2009 against the City of Littlefield, the County of Lamb, and several government employees involved in their prosecution. Their case went to trial in 2011, and the jury failed to find any of the defendants in the case were financially liable for any of the civil rights violations alleged against them. So neither Ramirez or Sifuentes received any compensation for their 12 years in custody."
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Compensation Awarded:	No
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Age When Imprisoned:	22
Age When Released:	34
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"Alberto Sifuentes, The National Registry of Exonerations"
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Alberto Sifuentes

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

12

Year Crime:

1996

Year Convicted:

1998

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

Lamb

City of Crime:

Littlefield

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

22

Age When Released:

34

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

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"Alberto Sifuentes, The National Registry of Exonerations"

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https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3636

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