Angela Cannings

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	1.67
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Year Convicted:	2002
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Angela Cannings was wrongly convicted of murdering two of her children who actually died of natural causes. Sir Roy Meadows' erroneous testimony was persuasive to convince the jury to convict Angela Cannings, just as it had been in Sally Clark's case. The Court of Appeals quashed Cannings' convictions on December 9, 2003 based on new medical evidence a crime had not been committed. Settled her compensation claim against the British government for six figures in June 2008. The exact amount was not publicly disclosed."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous expert testimony that the natural deaths of her two young children at different times were murders.
Innocence Proved By:	"Court of Appeals quashed Cannings' convictions on December 9, 2003."
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Compensation Awarded:	Six figure settlement - exact amount not disclosed
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	38
Age When Released:	39
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Mother Cleared of Infant Sons' Deaths, The Guardian, UK, 12-10-2003"
Information Location 1:	"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1104001,00.html"
Information Source 2:	"Six-figure-sum-mother-wrongly-jailed-cot-deaths, By Daniel Boffey, Daily Mail (London), June 21, 2008"
Information Location 2:	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1028262/Six-figure-sum-mother-wrongly-jailed-cot-deaths.html
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Angela Cannings

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

1.67

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2002

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous expert testimony that the natural deaths of her two young children at different times were murders.

Innocence Proved By:

"Court of Appeals quashed Cannings' convictions on December 9, 2003."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Six figure settlement - exact amount not disclosed

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

38

Age When Released:

39

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Mother Cleared of Infant Sons' Deaths, The Guardian, UK, 12-10-2003"

Information Location 1:

"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1104001,00.html"

Information Source 2:

"Six-figure-sum-mother-wrongly-jailed-cot-deaths, By Daniel Boffey, Daily Mail (London), June 21, 2008"

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1028262/Six-figure-sum-mother-wrongly-jailed-cot-deaths.html

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