Musa Dlamini

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Charge:	Escape
Sentence:	2 years
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	2012
Year Convicted:	2012
Year Cleared:	2013
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Swaziland
County or Region of Crime:	Manzini
City of Crime:	Manzini
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Musa Dlamini was wrongly convicted in 2012 of escape in Manzini, Swaziland, and sentenced to two years imprisonment. Dlamini pled guilty, but he appealed his conviction and sentence. In 2013 Dlamini's conviction was vacated based on multiple gross irregularities in the handling of the case by the trial magistrate that resulted in a failure of justice, and that the charge itself was contrary to section 282 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act 67 of 1938."
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Innocence Proved By:	"In 2013 Dlamini's conviction was vacated based on multiple gross irregularities in the handling of the case by the trial magistrate that resulted in a failure of justice, and that the charge itself was contrary to section 282 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act 67 of 1938."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Sebenzile Ndlela - The ‘error-prone’ magistrate, By Welcome Dlamini, Swazi Observer (Mbabane, Swaziland), November 1, 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://www.observer.org.sz/news/76938-sebenzile-ndlela-the-%E2%80%98error-prone%E2%80%99-magistrate.html
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Musa Dlamini

Charge:

Escape

Sentence:

2 years

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

2012

Year Convicted:

2012

Year Cleared:

2013

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Swaziland

County or Region of Crime:

Manzini

City of Crime:

Manzini

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"In 2013 Dlamini's conviction was vacated based on multiple gross irregularities in the handling of the case by the trial magistrate that resulted in a failure of justice, and that the charge itself was contrary to section 282 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act 67 of 1938."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Sebenzile Ndlela - The ‘error-prone’ magistrate, By Welcome Dlamini, Swazi Observer (Mbabane, Swaziland), November 1, 2015"

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http://www.observer.org.sz/news/76938-sebenzile-ndlela-the-%E2%80%98error-prone%E2%80%99-magistrate.html

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