Edward Caley-Knowles

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Charge:	Assault (Including Battery)
Sentence:	9 months in jail suspended for 2 years
Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:	1972
Year Convicted:	1972
Year Cleared:	2013
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Kendal
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Edward Caley-Knowles was wrongly convicted in 1972 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against a fellow railway worker in Kendal, England. He offered a defense of self-defense, but the trial judge said this was no defence in law, and directed the jury to return a guilty verdict without retiring. Caley-Knowles was given a nine month prison sentence suspended for two months of good behavior. The Criminal Case Review Commission accepted Caley-Knowles case after the House of Lords ruled in 2005 in Regina v. Wang [2005] UKHL 9 (10 February 2005), "that there were no circumstances in which a judge was entitled to direct a jury to return a verdict of guilty." In June 2006 the Court of Criminal Appeals for England and Wales quashed Caley-Knowles' conviction as unsafe because the trial judge directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty."
Conviction Caused By:	Trial judge erroneously directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty.
Innocence Proved By:	In June 2006 the Court of Criminal Appeals for England and Wales quashed Caley-Knowles' conviction as unsafe because the trial judge directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Conviction quashed after 34 years, By Staff writer, BBC News, June 21, 2006"
Information Location 1:	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/5101112.stm
Information Source 2:	"Regina v. Wang [2005] UKHL 9 (10 February 2005) ("18. We would accordingly allow the appeal, quash the appellant's conviction and answer the certified question by saying that there are no circumstances in which a judge is entitled to direct a jury to return a verdict of guilty.")"
Information Location 2:	http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldjudgmt/jd050210/wang-1.htm
Information Source 3:	"‘They have piled lies on top of lies. It was a David and Goliath case but I have won’, By P. McGowan (staff), Hexham Courant, June 23, 2013"
Information Location 3:	http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk/they-have-piled-lies-on-top-of-lies-it-was-a-david-and-goliath-case-but-i-have-won-1.322992
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Edward Caley-Knowles

Charge:

Assault (Including Battery)

Sentence:

9 months in jail suspended for 2 years

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

1972

Year Convicted:

1972

Year Cleared:

2013

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Kendal

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Trial judge erroneously directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty.

Innocence Proved By:

In June 2006 the Court of Criminal Appeals for England and Wales quashed Caley-Knowles' conviction as unsafe because the trial judge directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Conviction quashed after 34 years, By Staff writer, BBC News, June 21, 2006"

Information Location 1:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/5101112.stm

Information Source 2:

"Regina v. Wang [2005] UKHL 9 (10 February 2005) ("18. We would accordingly allow the appeal, quash the appellant's conviction and answer the certified question by saying that there are no circumstances in which a judge is entitled to direct a jury to return a verdict of guilty.")"

Information Location 2:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/ldjudgmt/jd050210/wang-1.htm

Information Source 3:

"‘They have piled lies on top of lies. It was a David and Goliath case but I have won’, By P. McGowan (staff), Hexham Courant, June 23, 2013"

Information Location 3:

http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk/they-have-piled-lies-on-top-of-lies-it-was-a-david-and-goliath-case-but-i-have-won-1.322992

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