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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 of ineffective assistance by his trial counsel for failing to discover and use three items of exculpatory evidence made available by the prosecution. His claim for compensation filed in 2007 was denied by the British government on the basis his conviction hadn't specifically been quashed on the basis of his innocence. In February 2009 the UK's Court of Appeal upheld the government's ruling in denying him compensation. |
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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Defendant
Aided By:
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Compensation Awarded: |
No |
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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Source 2:
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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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Source 3:
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No payout after 14 years in jail, BBC News, February 4, 2009 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7869878.stm |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org