Blake Paul Cunnard

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	10 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	2009
Year Convicted:	2012
Year Cleared:	2014
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Zealand
County or Region of Crime:
City of Crime:	Nelson
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Samuel Ingram Gillbanks, Blake Paul Cunnard, Jared Matthew Perry, Blair Robert McNaughton, and Issac Crawford Warren were codefendants wrongly convicted on February 24, 2012 of charges related to the shotgun death of Troy Minto in Nelson, New Zealand in November 2009."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Convictions of Gillbanks, Cunnard, and Perry were quashed on November 27, 2014 by the Court of Appeals. No retrial was ordered because the Crown informed the Court it would not retry the defendants."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	Gillbanks v R [2014] NZCA 567 (27 November 2014)
Information Location 1:	http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZCA/2014/567.html
Information Source 2:	"Three have homicide convictions quashed, NZ Newswire, November 27, 2014"
Information Location 2:	https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/25629396/three-have-homicide-convictions-quashed/
Information Source 3:	"Minto five found guilty, By Staff writer, The Nelson Mail, Feb. 24, 2012"
Information Location 3:	http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/6480222/Minto-five-found-guilty
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Blake Paul Cunnard

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

10 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

2009

Year Convicted:

2012

Year Cleared:

2014

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Zealand

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Nelson

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Samuel Ingram Gillbanks, Blake Paul Cunnard, Jared Matthew Perry, Blair Robert McNaughton, and Issac Crawford Warren were codefendants wrongly convicted on February 24, 2012 of charges related to the shotgun death of Troy Minto in Nelson, New Zealand in November 2009."

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Convictions of Gillbanks, Cunnard, and Perry were quashed on November 27, 2014 by the Court of Appeals. No retrial was ordered because the Crown informed the Court it would not retry the defendants."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

Gillbanks v R [2014] NZCA 567 (27 November 2014)

Information Location 1:

http://www.nzlii.org/nz/cases/NZCA/2014/567.html

Information Source 2:

"Three have homicide convictions quashed, NZ Newswire, November 27, 2014"

Information Location 2:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/25629396/three-have-homicide-convictions-quashed/

Information Source 3:

"Minto five found guilty, By Staff writer, The Nelson Mail, Feb. 24, 2012"

Information Location 3:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/6480222/Minto-five-found-guilty

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