Kevin Egan

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Charge:	Revealing Protected Informants Identity
Sentence:	2 years and 6 months
Years Imprisoned:	0.167
Year Crime:	2004
Year Convicted:	2006
Year Cleared:	2009
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Hong Kong
County or Region of Crime:	Hong Kong
City of Crime:	Hong Kong
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Kevin Egan was wrongly convicted in in June 2006 on two counts of attempting to disclose information about the identity of a protected witness to a reporter from the South China Morning Post. Kevin Egan, an Australian attorney, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison. He served two months before being granted bail pending the outcome of his appeal. Egan was acquitted by the Hong Kong Court of Appeal on February 12, 2009. The court ruled that there was insufficient evidence that the witness was in fact under protective custody."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Acquitted on appeal by the Hong Kong Court of Appeal on February 12, 2009."
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Lawyer Egan wins appeal in witness leak case, By Nickkita Lau, The Standard (Hong Kong), February 13, 2009"
Information Location 1:	http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=78208&sid=22687845&con_type=3
Information Source 2:	"High-profile HK lawyer's conviction quashed, AFP, February 12, 2009"
Information Location 2:	http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jP4n23UzH-D2burHsLpSNWBILCTg
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Kevin Egan

Charge:

Revealing Protected Informants Identity

Sentence:

2 years and 6 months

Years Imprisoned:

0.167

Year Crime:

2004

Year Convicted:

2006

Year Cleared:

2009

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Hong Kong

County or Region of Crime:

Hong Kong

City of Crime:

Hong Kong

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Acquitted on appeal by the Hong Kong Court of Appeal on February 12, 2009."

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"Lawyer Egan wins appeal in witness leak case, By Nickkita Lau, The Standard (Hong Kong), February 13, 2009"

Information Location 1:

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=78208&sid=22687845&con_type=3

Information Source 2:

"High-profile HK lawyer's conviction quashed, AFP, February 12, 2009"

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jP4n23UzH-D2burHsLpSNWBILCTg

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