Innocence Project

Project innocence

Miguel Roman was the man I chose he was convicted of just murder, but the victim had was 17 year old Carmen Lopez, She was 6 months pregnant and was Miguel’s ex-girlfriend .The only evidence that the police had to go off of was the neighbor which said that they had heard sounds of physical confrontation around 8:30 P.M. January 3, another neighbor said that he had seen what looked like Miguel’s car. He served 18.5 years in jail, but his sentence was a 60 year he was sentenced 1/3/88 and was exonerated 4/2/09. What led to the exoneration was that there were three items that they needed to check for DNA for a rape kit, a cloth that blinded the victim, and an electric cord that strangled the victim. The DNA found on all three things were negative to Miguel’s DNA.