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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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14 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1993 |
Year
Cleared:
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2007 |
Location
of Trial:
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United Kingdom |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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"Wrongly convicted in 1993 of a 1990 murder and sentenced to life in prison. Andrew Adams conviction quashed by the Court of Appeals on January 12, 2007 based on new evidence." |
Conviction
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Innocence
Proved By:
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"Andrew Adams conviction quashed by the Court of Appeals on January 12, 2007 based on new evidence."
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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21 |
Age
When Released:
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36 |
Information Source 1: |
"Engineer cleared of 1990 murder, By Joshua Rozenberg, Telegraph (London UK), January 13, 2007" |
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Location 1:
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/13/nfreed13.xml |
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"I was let down so badly, says man freed after 15 years in jail, By Karen McVeigh, The Guardian (London UK), January 13, 2007" |
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"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1989447,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=11" |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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