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Sultan Alam

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Charge:	"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)"
Sentence:	18 months
Year Convicted:	1996
Year Cleared:	2007
Location of Trial:	United Kingdom
Result:	Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in 1996 of conspiracy to steal motor vehicle parts. Sentenced to 18 months in prison. Sultan Alam, a policeman, claimed he was the target of a police conspiracy to frame him because he filed a racial discrimination case against the police force in 1993, a year before he was arrested and charged on the conspiracy/theft charges. In November 2007 the U.K.'s Court of Appeal quashed Alam's conviction as unsafe based on new evidence that the police investigating the case had deliberately concealed exculpatory evidence from the prosecutors and Alam's lawyers."
Conviction Caused By:	Police misconduct by concealment of exculpatory evidence from the prosecutors and Alam's trial lawyers.
Innocence Proved By:	In November 2007 the U.K.'s Court of Appeal quashed Alam's conviction as unsafe based on new evidence that the police investigating the case had deliberately concealed exculpatory evidence from the prosecutors and Alam's lawyers.
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Age When Imprisoned:	34
Age When Released:	35
Information Source 1:	"Police officer conviction quashed, BBC News, November 19, 2007"
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Ethnicity/Skin:	Asian
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Sultan Alam

Years Imprisoned:

Charge:

"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)"

Sentence:

18 months

Year Convicted:

1996

Year Cleared:

2007

Location of Trial:

United Kingdom

Result:

Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Police misconduct by concealment of exculpatory evidence from the prosecutors and Alam's trial lawyers.

Innocence Proved By:

In November 2007 the U.K.'s Court of Appeal quashed Alam's conviction as unsafe based on new evidence that the police investigating the case had deliberately concealed exculpatory evidence from the prosecutors and Alam's lawyers.

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Was Perpetrator Found?

Age When Imprisoned:

34

Age When Released:

35

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"Police officer conviction quashed, BBC News, November 19, 2007"

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7102169.stm

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Ethnicity/Skin:

Asian

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