Seamus Flanagan

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Charge:	Rape
Sentence:	3 years
Years Imprisoned:	1.5
Year Crime:	2008
Year Convicted:	2011
Year Cleared:	2014
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Ireland
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City of Crime:	Dublin
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Seamus Flanagan and his older brother Eamonn Flanagan were wrongly convicted in November 2011 of raping a woman in a Dublin, Ireland hotel room on March 3, 2008. Their convictions were basedon the testimony of a man that he saw the two men at the door of the woman's hotel room the night of the rape. The witness claimed that he had consensual sex with the woman that night -- and his DNA was recovered from her -- while no DNA matching the brothers was found. After their convictions by a jury the brothers were each sentenced to 3 years in prison. After the men were imprisoned the witness -- Daniel Lynch -- executed an Affidavit that he had been pressured by the police (gardaí) into saying he had seen the two brothers at the door of the hotel where the alleged rape occurred. He said that he had been threatened with seven years in prison for "covering up" for the Flanagans if he didn't provide the evidence the police wanted. The men appealed based on the new evidence. On October 1, 2014 Ireland's Court of Appeal quashed the Flanagan brother's convictions ruling and approved dismissal of the charges on the basis that the new evidence would have “rendered it extremely difficult” for any prosecution in a retrial."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjury by the prosecution's key witness suborned by the prosecution.
Innocence Proved By:	"On October 1, 2014 Ireland's Court of Appeal quashed the Flanagan brother's convictions ruling and approved dismissal of the charges on the basis that the new evidence would have “rendered it extremely difficult” for any prosecution in a retrial."
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Age When Imprisoned:	32
Age When Released:	33
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Laois men’s rape conviction quashed, By Staff Writers, Leinstar Express, October 10, 2014"
Information Location 1:	http://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/local-news/laois-men-s-rape-conviction-quashed-1-6342483
Information Source 2:	"Court quashes rape conviction of Laois brothers, By Brian Kavanagh (Staff writer), The Irish Times, Oct. 2, 2014"
Information Location 2:	http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/court-quashes-rape-conviction-of-laois-brothers-1.1949931
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Seamus Flanagan

Charge:

Rape

Sentence:

3 years

Years Imprisoned:

1.5

Year Crime:

2008

Year Convicted:

2011

Year Cleared:

2014

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Ireland

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Dublin

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjury by the prosecution's key witness suborned by the prosecution.

Innocence Proved By:

"On October 1, 2014 Ireland's Court of Appeal quashed the Flanagan brother's convictions ruling and approved dismissal of the charges on the basis that the new evidence would have “rendered it extremely difficult” for any prosecution in a retrial."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

32

Age When Released:

33

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Laois men’s rape conviction quashed, By Staff Writers, Leinstar Express, October 10, 2014"

Information Location 1:

http://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/local-news/laois-men-s-rape-conviction-quashed-1-6342483

Information Source 2:

"Court quashes rape conviction of Laois brothers, By Brian Kavanagh (Staff writer), The Irish Times, Oct. 2, 2014"

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http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/court-quashes-rape-conviction-of-laois-brothers-1.1949931

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