Charles Clarke

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Charge:	Conspiracy to cause grevious bodily harm
Sentence:	4 year
Years Imprisoned:	3
Year Crime:	1974
Year Convicted:	1977
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Hertfordshire
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Posthumously - Died in prison
Summary of Case:	"Charles Clarke was a codefendant of Bob Maynard, Reginald Dudley and Kathleen Bailey. Served four years in prison after the four codefendants were wrongly convicted in June 1977 of being involved in the murder of Micky Cornwall, and Clarke only was also convicted of being involved in the murder of Michael Moseley. The trial that lasted seven months was the longest trial in English history up to that time. The Criminal Case Review Commission referred their case to the Court of Appeals on June 21, 2000. Charlie Clarke died in 1995 before being posthumously cleared by the Court of Appeal on July 16, 2002."
Conviction Caused By:	"Police fabricated confessions allegedly made by Reginald Dudley and Bob Maynard, and in exchange for a lighter sentence, a jailhouse snitch fabricated an alleged confession by the two men to the two murders."
Innocence Proved By:	"The convictions of the four codefendants were quashed by the Court of Appeal on July 16, 2002."
Defendant Aided By:	Criminal Case Review Commission
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"R. v. Robert Maynard, Reginald Dudley, Kathleen Bailey and Charles Clarke [2002] EWCA Crim 1942"
Information Location 1:	http://netk.net.au/UK/Maynard.asp
Information Source 2:	"Torso Murder Convictions Quashed," Vikram Dodd, Guardian Unlimited, London, July 17, 2002"
Information Location 2:	http://innocent.org.uk/cases/rdudley/
Information Source 3:	"Recent Case Statatistics, Criminal Cases Review Commission"
Information Location 3:	http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/latestnews/latestnews_case.html
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Charles Clarke

Charge:

Conspiracy to cause grevious bodily harm

Sentence:

4 year

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

1974

Year Convicted:

1977

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Hertfordshire

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Posthumously - Died in prison

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Police fabricated confessions allegedly made by Reginald Dudley and Bob Maynard, and in exchange for a lighter sentence, a jailhouse snitch fabricated an alleged confession by the two men to the two murders."

Innocence Proved By:

"The convictions of the four codefendants were quashed by the Court of Appeal on July 16, 2002."

Defendant Aided By:

Criminal Case Review Commission

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"R. v. Robert Maynard, Reginald Dudley, Kathleen Bailey and Charles Clarke [2002] EWCA Crim 1942"

Information Location 1:

http://netk.net.au/UK/Maynard.asp

Information Source 2:

"Torso Murder Convictions Quashed," Vikram Dodd, Guardian Unlimited, London, July 17, 2002"

Information Location 2:

http://innocent.org.uk/cases/rdudley/

Information Source 3:

"Recent Case Statatistics, Criminal Cases Review Commission"

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http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/latestnews/latestnews_case.html

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