Eric Volz

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	30 years
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	2006
Year Convicted:	2007
Year Cleared:	2007
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Nicaragua
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Eric Volz was wrongly convicted in February 2007 of murdering an ex-girlfriend in November 2006 in in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. His alibi, supported by numerous witnesses, was he was in Managua, two hours (about 85 miles) from the town where the woman, a native Nicaraguan, was murdered. Volz, and American living in Nicaragua, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In December 2007 the Nicaraguan Court of Appeals overturned Volz's conviction on the basis of insufficent evidence of his guilt, and ordered his immediate release. Volz was released from prison on December 21, 2007 and was immediately flown out of the country to Atlanta, Georgia where his parents live. Volz was wrongly imprisoned for 13 months."
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Innocence Proved By:	"In December 2007 the Nicaraguan Court of Appeals overturned Volz's conviction on the basis of insufficent evidence of his guilt, and ordered his immediate release."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Freed American exits Nicaragua, Bayardo Mendoza (AP), Seattle Times, December 22, 2007, p. A11."
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Eric Volz

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

30 years

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

2006

Year Convicted:

2007

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Nicaragua

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"In December 2007 the Nicaraguan Court of Appeals overturned Volz's conviction on the basis of insufficent evidence of his guilt, and ordered his immediate release."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Freed American exits Nicaragua, Bayardo Mendoza (AP), Seattle Times, December 22, 2007, p. A11."

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