Anna Vasquez

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Charge:	Child/Minor Sexual Assault
Sentence:	15 years
Years Imprisoned:	15.75
Year Crime:	1994
Year Convicted:	1998
Year Cleared:	2016
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
County or Region of Crime:	Bexar
City of Crime:	San Antonio
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera and Anna Vasquez were codefendants wrongly convicted in 1998 of gang-raping two young girl in San Antonio, Texas."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On November 23, 2016 the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted the four women's writ of habeas corpus and declared they were actually innocent. The Court's ruling stated: "When defendants have accomplished the Herculean task of satisfying their burden on a claim of actual innocence, the converse is equally true. Those defendants have won the right to proclaim to the citizens of Texas that they did not commit a crime. That they are innocent. That they deserve to be exonerated. These women have carried that burden. They are innocent. And they are exonerated. This Court grants them the relief they seek.""
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Age When Imprisoned:	23
Age When Released:	39
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"Ex Parte Anna Vasquez, No. WR-84,697-01 & WR-84,697-02 (Tex. Court of Criminal Appeals 11-23-2016) (Granting habeas corpus petition on the basis of new evidence proving actual innocence by clear and convincing evidence.)"
Information Location 1:	http://www.search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=77738544-6ca4-4ce8-84b5-b44cf72669cc&coa=coscca&DT=OPINION&MediaID=aa112588-0a4e-438b-83c3-8ff51a94c5cb
Information Source 2:	""San Antonio Four" declared innocent, exonerated: The four women were sent to prison in the late 1990s on charges of sexually assaulting two young girls, By Johnathan Silver, The Texas Tribune, Nov. 23, 2016"
Information Location 2:	https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/23/san-antonio-four-declared-innocent-exonerated/
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Anna Vasquez

Charge:

Child/Minor Sexual Assault

Sentence:

15 years

Years Imprisoned:

15.75

Year Crime:

1994

Year Convicted:

1998

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

Bexar

City of Crime:

San Antonio

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

"Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera and Anna Vasquez were codefendants wrongly convicted in 1998 of gang-raping two young girl in San Antonio, Texas."

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

23

Age When Released:

39

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"Ex Parte Anna Vasquez, No. WR-84,697-01 & WR-84,697-02 (Tex. Court of Criminal Appeals 11-23-2016) (Granting habeas corpus petition on the basis of new evidence proving actual innocence by clear and convincing evidence.)"

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http://www.search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=77738544-6ca4-4ce8-84b5-b44cf72669cc&coa=coscca&DT=OPINION&MediaID=aa112588-0a4e-438b-83c3-8ff51a94c5cb

Information Source 2:

""San Antonio Four" declared innocent, exonerated: The four women were sent to prison in the late 1990s on charges of sexually assaulting two young girls, By Johnathan Silver, The Texas Tribune, Nov. 23, 2016"

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https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/23/san-antonio-four-declared-innocent-exonerated/

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