Jiangxi Defendant 1

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death and later resentenced or commuted to Life
Years Imprisoned:	16
Year Crime:	2000
Year Convicted:	2003
Year Cleared:	2016
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	China
County or Region of Crime:	Jiangxi
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Four codefendants were wrongly convicted in 2003 of murder in the death of a woman in China's Jiangxi province in 2000. Their prosecutions were based on their confessions that were extracted by police torture during their interrogations. There was no other evidence linking them to the crime. The four were sentenced to death. In 2006, their sentences were reduced to a death sentence suspended for two years, which is typically commuted to life in prison. In 2015 the Jiangxi Provincial High Court accepted their appeal. On December 22, 2016 the High Court reversed the convictions of the four men and ordered their acquital. The court's ruling noted their confessions could have been coerced, and the forensic evidence was inconclusive, in stating: "This case lacks objective evidence.""
Conviction Caused By:	Coerced confessions.
Innocence Proved By:	"On December 22, 2016 the High Court reversed the convictions of the four men and ordered their acquital. The court's ruling noted their confessions could have been coerced, and the forensic evidence was inconclusive, in stating: "This case lacks objective evidence.""
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Chinese
Information Source 1:	"4 in China cleared after 2 successful death sentence appeals, By AP, The Daily Progress, December 22, 2016"
Information Location 1:	http://www.dailyprogress.com/in-china-cleared-after-successful-death-sentence-appeals/article_639788f1-7875-5577-9f89-ab7385b6bb39.html
Information Source 2:	"China court exonerates four in latest overturned sentence, By Reuters, Mo4ch.com, Dec. 22, 2016"
Information Location 2:	http://www.mo4ch.com/china-court-exonerates-four-in-latest-overturned-sentence/
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Jiangxi Defendant 1

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death and later resentenced or commuted to Life

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

2000

Year Convicted:

2003

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

China

County or Region of Crime:

Jiangxi

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Coerced confessions.

Innocence Proved By:

"On December 22, 2016 the High Court reversed the convictions of the four men and ordered their acquital. The court's ruling noted their confessions could have been coerced, and the forensic evidence was inconclusive, in stating: "This case lacks objective evidence.""

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Chinese

Information Source 1:

"4 in China cleared after 2 successful death sentence appeals, By AP, The Daily Progress, December 22, 2016"

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http://www.dailyprogress.com/in-china-cleared-after-successful-death-sentence-appeals/article_639788f1-7875-5577-9f89-ab7385b6bb39.html

Information Source 2:

"China court exonerates four in latest overturned sentence, By Reuters, Mo4ch.com, Dec. 22, 2016"

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http://www.mo4ch.com/china-court-exonerates-four-in-latest-overturned-sentence/

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