Michael Washington

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Charge:	Murder
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Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	1985
Year Convicted:	1988
Year Cleared:	1990
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:	"Michael Washington was wrongly convicted of murder on February 23, 1988 in the death of Adelino Fragoso Domar from falling out of a 6th floor window of a building in Kings County, New York on March 5, 1985. Washington's first trial ended in a mistrial. Washington appealed, arguing the prosecution's case based solely on circumstantial evidence was not legally insufficient to support a guilty verdict. On January 29, 1990 the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division reversed Washington's conviction and dismissed the indictment, on the grounds that the prosecution's evidence was insufficient to establish his guilt, because the trial testimony “merely establishes that the defendant was in the apartment, along with at least four other individuals, shortly before Domar fell out the window.... [A]t no point did the witness observe the defendant, or any other individual, push or force Domar out the window.”"
Conviction Caused By:	Prosecution presented an inadequate circumstantial case.
Innocence Proved By:	"On January 29, 1990 the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division reversed Washington's conviction and dismissed the indictment, on the grounds that the prosecution's evidence was insufficient to establish his guilt."
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"People v. Washington, 157 A.D.2d 872, 550 N.Y.S.2d 436 (2d Dep't 1990) (reversing the conviction)"
Information Location 1:	"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11663690735813782155&q=Michael+Washington+1990&hl=en&as_sdt=4,33"
Information Source 2:	"Inevitable Error: Wrongful New York State Homicide Convictions, 1965-1988, by Marty I. Rosenbaum, 18 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 807, 828"
Information Location 2:	http://deskovic.org/research/article/id/Inevitable-Error-Wrongful-New-York-State-Homicide-Convictions
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Michael Washington

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

1985

Year Convicted:

1988

Year Cleared:

1990

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:

Prosecution presented an inadequate circumstantial case.

Innocence Proved By:

"On January 29, 1990 the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division reversed Washington's conviction and dismissed the indictment, on the grounds that the prosecution's evidence was insufficient to establish his guilt."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"People v. Washington, 157 A.D.2d 872, 550 N.Y.S.2d 436 (2d Dep't 1990) (reversing the conviction)"

Information Location 1:

"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11663690735813782155&q=Michael+Washington+1990&hl=en&as_sdt=4,33"

Information Source 2:

"Inevitable Error: Wrongful New York State Homicide Convictions, 1965-1988, by Marty I. Rosenbaum, 18 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 807, 828"

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http://deskovic.org/research/article/id/Inevitable-Error-Wrongful-New-York-State-Homicide-Convictions

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