Colin Warner

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Charge:	Second Degree Murder
Sentence:	15 years to life imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	20.83
Year Crime:	1980
Year Convicted:	1982
Year Cleared:	2001
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
County or Region of Crime:	Kings
City of Crime:	New York City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Colin Warner was wrongly convicted in 1982 of a murder committed on April 10, 1980 in New York City. Warner was arrested on April 11, 1980. Warner's first trial endedin a mistrial, but he was convicted of second-degree murder after his retrial in May 1982. Warner's co-defendant Norman Simmonds confessed in a deposition he acted alone, which resulted in the Kings County DA's Office reopening the case in 2000 and finding additional evidence exculpating Warner. Based on the new evidence Warner filed a motion for a new trial that wasn't opposed by the DA's Offfice. Warner's conviction was vacated on January 31, 2001, and he was released the next day, on February 1, 2001. Warner was wrongly imprisoned almost almost 21 years of wrongful imprisonment. Colin Warner sued the City of New York and settled his federal civil rights lawsuit in 2009 for $2.7 million in compensation."
Conviction Caused By:	Eyewitness error
Innocence Proved By:	"Co-defendant Norman Simmonds confessed in a deposition he acted alone, that resulted in the Kings County DA's Office reopening the case and finding additional evidence exculpating Warner."
Defendant Aided By:	"Carl King, a boyhood friend of Warner’s from Trinidad worked for years to find evidence of Colin Warner's innocence."
Compensation Awarded:	"$2.7 million (New York City, 2009)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	18
Age When Released:	39
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"New York Times, January 25, 2001"
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Information Source 2:	Actual Innocence - Exonerated Individuals whose cases involved prosecutorial misconduct
Information Location 2:	http://www.publicintegrity.org/pm/default.aspx?sid=sidebarsb&aid=38
Information Source 3:	"Decade of Bad Busts by Authorities Costs New York City $305 Million, By Thomas Zambito (Staff writer), New York Daily News, May 5, 2010"
Information Location 3:	http://www.nydailynews.com/news/decade-bad-busts-authorities-costs-city-305-million-article-1.444877
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Colin Warner

Charge:

Second Degree Murder

Sentence:

15 years to life imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

20.83

Year Crime:

1980

Year Convicted:

1982

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

Kings

City of Crime:

New York City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness error

Innocence Proved By:

"Co-defendant Norman Simmonds confessed in a deposition he acted alone, that resulted in the Kings County DA's Office reopening the case and finding additional evidence exculpating Warner."

Defendant Aided By:

"Carl King, a boyhood friend of Warner’s from Trinidad worked for years to find evidence of Colin Warner's innocence."

Compensation Awarded:

"$2.7 million (New York City, 2009)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

18

Age When Released:

39

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"New York Times, January 25, 2001"

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Information Source 2:

Actual Innocence - Exonerated Individuals whose cases involved prosecutorial misconduct

Information Location 2:

http://www.publicintegrity.org/pm/default.aspx?sid=sidebarsb&aid=38

Information Source 3:

"Decade of Bad Busts by Authorities Costs New York City $305 Million, By Thomas Zambito (Staff writer), New York Daily News, May 5, 2010"

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/decade-bad-busts-authorities-costs-city-305-million-article-1.444877

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