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Wrongfully Imprisoned for 20 Years, Carmen Mejia Now Faces ICE Deportation
New reviews found the child's fatal injuries accidental, leading to dismissal of charges and protection from deportation under Temporary Protected Status, officials said.
- On Monday, a Travis County judge formally dismissed murder charges against Carmen Mejia, while federal officials confirmed she can remain in the country under Temporary Protected Status.
- A Texas court overturned Mejia's conviction in the 2003 scalding death of a 10-month-old after new evidence revealed the fatal injuries were accidental, not intentional.
- NBC News reports the home's water reached 147.8 degrees due to lacking safety features, while new testimony confirmed a daughter—not Mejia—accidentally activated the hot water.
- Mejia's lawyers say her release allows her to reunite with her four children, as the judge urged federal authorities not to "compound the tragedy" with deportation.
- The Department of Homeland Security lifted the immigration hold, allowing Mejia to remain in the country under Temporary Protected Status until it expires.
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A Texan woman, declared innocent on Monday after spending more than 22 years in prison for an unjust sentence for the death of a minor, may remain in the country, according to a press official of the Department of Homeland Security. She had faced a threat of deportation because her immigration status expired while she was in prison, according to a judge and his lawyers. The woman, Carmen Mejía, 54, was convicted of murder and injury to a child i…
Texas Woman Exonerated After 22 Years Won't Be Deported
A Texas woman whose murder conviction was tossed after more than two decades in prison will not be forced out of the country, the New York Times reports. Federal officials say 54-year-old Carmen Mejia, declared innocent Monday in the 2003 scalding death of a 10-month-old in her care, can remain...
A woman who spent more than two decades in a crime that had not been committed in the United States was released this week. Carmen Mejia, 54 years old, was innocent of the death of a 10-month-old baby in the state of Texas, after courts recognized that the episode was the result of a domestic accident. The information is of the Innocence Project, an organization that worked in the review of the case. Fire in advance leaves at least three dead in…
A woman who was exonerated by Texas Justice after spending more than two decades in prison for a murder she did not commit now faces the threat of being deported to Honduras. A Travis County judge formally dismissed the case against 54-year-old Carmen Mejía, ending a sentence that held her for 22 years in prison, according to local media today. At the end of January, an appeals court found her innocent, after new evidence came to light in her ca…
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A Texas mother who was exonerated after 22 years in prison for the death in 2003 of a 10-month-old baby who suffered hot water burns in the bathtub was released early on Wednesday. The Innocent Project reported that 54-year-old Carmen Mejía left the Travis County Correctional Complex shortly after midnight. "I never lost faith or hope; I did not lose them in 22 years," she said. Travis County District Court judge, Fr. David Wahlberg, exonerated …
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