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Kum Yet Cheung

 

Charge:

Attempted Murder

Sentence:

29 years

Years Imprisoned:

7

Year Crime:

1995

Year Convicted:

1996

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

Alameda

City of Crime:

Emeryville

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Kum Yet Cheung was twice wrongly convicted of attempting to murder two men outside a Denny's restaurant in Emeryville, California. First conviction in 1996, second in 1999. The California Court of Appeals vacated Cheung's conviction in 2002 based on a long list of errors, including prosecution witness perjury, prosecutorial misconduct of withholding exculpatory medical records evidence, eyewitness error and ineffective assistance of counsel in failing to get a taped confession by the actual shooter translated from Cantonese or introduced as evidence."

Conviction Caused By:

"Prosecution witness perjury, prosecutorial misconduct of withholding exculpatory medical records evidence, eyewitness error and ineffective assistance of counsel in failing to get a taped confession by the actual shooter translated from Cantonese or introduced as evidence."

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction vacated in 2002 by the California First District Court of Appeal

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Asian

Information Source 1:

"Not Guilty After All, San Francisco Magazine, November 2004"

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