Ryan Omar Butler

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Charge:	Attempted Robbery
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Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	2007
Year Convicted:	2010
Year Cleared:	2011
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Bahamas
County or Region of Crime:	New Providence
City of Crime:	Nassau
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Ryan Omar Butler was wrongly convicted on September 9, 2010 of attempting to rob an armored truck on December 21, 2007 in Nassau, The Bahamas. Ryan Butler was shot at the scene, but he claimed he was caught in cross-fire between the robbers and the police as he was walking to a grocery store in a shopping center to purchase milk for his girlfriend who was recuperating from surgery. Witnesses said two men were involved in the robbery and they didn’t wear masks. No eyewitnesses identified Butler as one of the robbers, and he didn’t have a gun on him. He was charged based on being shot. Butler, who represented himself during his trial, called as a witness a woman who was also shot in the shopping center. She testified that she believed a police officer shot her. The jury convicted Butler. Another man accused in the robbery, Raymond Bastian, was free on bail when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting two days before the start of the trial. The Bahamas Court of Appeals quashed Butler's conviction and sentence on September 16, 2011 on the basis there was insufficient evidence."
Conviction Caused By:	Mistaken identification.
Innocence Proved By:	"The Bahamas Court of Appeals quashed Butler's conviction and sentence on September 16, 2011 on the basis there was insufficient evidence."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Man convicted of armoured truck robbery attempt has conviction quashed, By Natario McKenzie (staff writer), Bahamas Tribune (Nassau, Bahamas) p 3, March 17, 2011"
Information Location 1:	http://www.tribune242.com/news/03182011_nm-sentenceoverturned_news_pg3
Information Source 2:	"Verdict expected today in attempted armed robbery case, The Nassau Guardian, September 9, 2010"
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Ryan Omar Butler

Charge:

Attempted Robbery

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

2007

Year Convicted:

2010

Year Cleared:

2011

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Bahamas

County or Region of Crime:

New Providence

City of Crime:

Nassau

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Mistaken identification.

Innocence Proved By:

"The Bahamas Court of Appeals quashed Butler's conviction and sentence on September 16, 2011 on the basis there was insufficient evidence."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Man convicted of armoured truck robbery attempt has conviction quashed, By Natario McKenzie (staff writer), Bahamas Tribune (Nassau, Bahamas) p 3, March 17, 2011"

Information Location 1:

http://www.tribune242.com/news/03182011_nm-sentenceoverturned_news_pg3

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"Verdict expected today in attempted armed robbery case, The Nassau Guardian, September 9, 2010"

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http://www.thenassauguardian.com/closing-submissions

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