Legal Opinion
Dominguez v. Hendley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 30, 2008No. 07-1004, 07-1005, 07-3030PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
In September 1989, when Alejandro Dominguez was fifteen years old, he was arrested on charges of home invasion and sexual assault, based on the allegations of eighteen-year-old Lisa Kraus, who lived in the same building as he did. Dominguez was convicted and spent four years incarcerated before being paroled. Throughout this process and the period following his release, he maintained his innocence and worked to exonerate himself. With the help of a new lawyer, Dominguez eventually proved that his DNA did not match the semen found on Kraus’s underwear, and on April 26,…
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