James Marwa Giriri

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Charge:	Contempt of Court
Sentence:	1 month
Years Imprisoned:	0.083
Year Crime:	2014
Year Convicted:	2014
Year Cleared:	2014
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Tanzania
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City of Crime:	Koboro Village
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Kaleb Kihongo Fanuel and James Marwa Giriri were wrongly convicted on July 1, 2014 of criminal contempt in a lawsuit about the title to property in the Koboro Village in Tanzania. The trial judge summarily found Fanuel and Giriri were in contempt of a court order and each was sentenced to a month in jail. Fanuel and Giriri appealed. In October 2014 Tanzania's Court of Appeals quashed the contempt convictions of Kaleb Fanuel and James Giriri in ruling, "We need not go far away from the record of the trial court on July 1, 2014, to find that indeed the two applicants were denied of their basic right to be heard on allegation that they were in contempt of the trial court's orders." The appeals court observed that proceedings of the trial court showed that basic procedural due processes were not extended to the two officials."
Conviction Caused By:	Trial judge failed to observe the due process rights of the Fanuel and Giriri.
Innocence Proved By:	"In October 2014 Tanzania's Court of Appeals quashed the contempt convictions of Kaleb Fanuel and James Giriri in ruling, "We need not go far away from the record of the trial court on July 1, 2014, to find that indeed the two applicants were denied of their basic right to be heard on allegation that they were in contempt of the trial court's orders." The appeals court observed that proceedings of the trial court showed that basic procedural due processes were not extended to the two officials."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"The Accused Must Be Heard for Certainty, By Faustine Kapama (Staff writer), Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam), October 13, 2014"
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James Marwa Giriri

Charge:

Contempt of Court

Sentence:

1 month

Years Imprisoned:

0.083

Year Crime:

2014

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2014

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Tanzania

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Koboro Village

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Trial judge failed to observe the due process rights of the Fanuel and Giriri.

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"The Accused Must Be Heard for Certainty, By Faustine Kapama (Staff writer), Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam), October 13, 2014"

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201410131612.html

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