Vincent Leroy Edwards

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	10
Year Crime:	2006
Year Convicted:	2013
Year Cleared:	2017
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Barbados
County or Region of Crime:	St. Michael
City of Crime:	Deacons
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Vincent Leroy Edwards and Ricardo Orlando Haynes (aka Richard Haynes) were codefendants wrongly convicted in June 2013 of murder in the shooting death of Damien Alleyne in Barbados on August 11, 2006. The prosecution's of Vincent Edwards and Ricardo Haynes was based on the allegation of police who were interrogating them that they separately made oral admissions of guilt on July 19, 2007 -- almost a year after Alleyne's death -- that were not audio or video recorded, and which Edwards and Haynes disputed was not true. They were both charged on July 21, 2007 with murder. There was no physical, forensic or eyewitness evidence linking either Edwards or Haynes to the crime. After their convictions by a jury Edwards and Haynes were sentenced to death. The Barbados Court of Appeal affirmed their convictions on July 9, 2015. They then appealed to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which in November 2015 remanded their case back to the Barbados COA to consider the issue of the unconstitutionality of the mandatory death penalty in Barbados for murder, which they raised for the first time in their appeal to the CCJ. The Barbados COA appeal decided the death penalty was constitutional, and Edwards and Haynes again appealed to the CCJ. On July 25, 2017 the CCJ quashed the convictions of Edwards and Richard Haynes and ordered their acquittal and release from custody on the basis that their "unacknowledged, uncorroborated and disputed confessions" was insufficient evidence to sustain their convictions. The CCJ criticized that in this day and age it is not mandatory in Barbados that interrogations are to be recorded."
Conviction Caused By:	Police allegations that Edwards and Haynes made oral admissions of guilt that were not audio or video recorded.
Innocence Proved By:	"On July 25, 2017 the CCJ quashed the convictions of Edwards and Haynes on the basis that their disputed oral confessions was insufficient evidence to sustain their convictions. The CCJ criticized that in this day and age it is not mandatory in Barbados that interrogations are to be recorded."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Vincent Leroy Edwards and Ricardo Orlando Haynes, [2017] CCJ 10 (AJ), No. BBCR2015/006 (Carib. Ct. of Justice, 7-25-2017) (Quashing convictions and ordering acquittal based on insufficient evidence of their guilt.)"
Information Location 1:	http://www.caribbeancourtofjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-CCJ-10-AJ.pdf
Information Source 2:	"Caribbean Court of Justice Sets Two Barbados Death Row Inmates Free, By Staff, Caribbean360.com, July 26, 2017"
Information Location 2:	http://www.caribbean360.com/news/caribbean-court-justice-sets-two-death-row-inmates-free-barbados
Information Source 3:	"CCJ rejects application by convicted murderers, By Randy Bennett, Barbados Today, November 28, 2015"
Information Location 3:	https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2015/11/28/ccj-rejects-application-by-convicted-murderers/
Information Source 4:	"CCJ orders release of men on death row in Barbados, By Staff, Nationnews.com, July 26, 2017"
Information Location 4:	http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/99012/ccj-release-death-row-barbados
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Vincent Leroy Edwards

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

2006

Year Convicted:

2013

Year Cleared:

2017

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Barbados

County or Region of Crime:

St. Michael

City of Crime:

Deacons

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Police allegations that Edwards and Haynes made oral admissions of guilt that were not audio or video recorded.

Innocence Proved By:

"On July 25, 2017 the CCJ quashed the convictions of Edwards and Haynes on the basis that their disputed oral confessions was insufficient evidence to sustain their convictions. The CCJ criticized that in this day and age it is not mandatory in Barbados that interrogations are to be recorded."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Vincent Leroy Edwards and Ricardo Orlando Haynes, [2017] CCJ 10 (AJ), No. BBCR2015/006 (Carib. Ct. of Justice, 7-25-2017) (Quashing convictions and ordering acquittal based on insufficient evidence of their guilt.)"

Information Location 1:

http://www.caribbeancourtofjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-CCJ-10-AJ.pdf

Information Source 2:

"Caribbean Court of Justice Sets Two Barbados Death Row Inmates Free, By Staff, Caribbean360.com, July 26, 2017"

Information Location 2:

http://www.caribbean360.com/news/caribbean-court-justice-sets-two-death-row-inmates-free-barbados

Information Source 3:

"CCJ rejects application by convicted murderers, By Randy Bennett, Barbados Today, November 28, 2015"

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https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2015/11/28/ccj-rejects-application-by-convicted-murderers/

Information Source 4:

"CCJ orders release of men on death row in Barbados, By Staff, Nationnews.com, July 26, 2017"

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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/99012/ccj-release-death-row-barbados

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