Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Conspiracy to violate one or more laws. |
Sentence: |
12 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
6 |
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Year Convicted: |
1976 |
Year Cleared: |
1980 |
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United Kingdom |
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England |
City of Crime: |
London |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Posthumously - Died in prison |
Summary of Case: |
"Guiseppe Conlon was one of the Maguire Seven. Wrongly convicted of running an IRA bomb factory in north London. Taken into Custody in Dec. 1974. Father of Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four wrongly convicted in 1975 of a 1974 pub bombing in Guildford, England. Guiseppe Conlon died in 1980 after being in custody for six years. He was exonerated in 1991 when the UK's Court of Appeals quashed the convictions of the Maguire Seven." |
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Sex: |
Male |
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White |
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Innocent UK website |
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http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/maguire7/ |
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Book About Case: |
""Miscarriage of Justice: An Irish Family's Story of Wrongful Conviction As Ira Terrorists" by Anne Maguire with Jim Gallaher (Roberts Rinehart Pub, 1994)" |
Book Information: |
http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/maguire7/moj.pdf |
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