Rafael Ruiz

First Name	Rafael
Last Name	Ruiz
Year of Conviction	1985
Year of Exoneration	2020
State of Conviction	New York
Trial, Bench Trial, or Guilty Plea	Trial
Type of Crime	Rape
Gender of Exoneree	Male
Race of exoneree	Hispanic
Types of evidence at trial	Eyewitness Forensic Evidence
Types of Flawed Forensics	No Transcript
Identity of eyewitness	Cross Racial Identification Victim
Lineup Procedures	Photo array Showup
Suggestive Procedures	Show-up procedure used, right after the photo array. Suggestive photo array, with background in defendant’s photograph different from the others, all of the fillers were Black and had Afro hairstyles, while the defendant was Hispanic and did not.