Paddy Joe Hill

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	16
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Year Convicted:	1975
Year Cleared:	1991
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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City of Crime:	Birmingham
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Paddy Joe Hill was one of the Birmingham Six. HIll was convicted in August 1975 of bombing two Birmingham city centre pubs in which 21 people died. Four of the six defendants were tortured into falsely confessing. Also, a prosecution expert testified that nitroglycerine traces were detected on the hands of some of the defendants. Their convictions were reversed in 1991 based on overwhelming evidence of their innocence."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous expert testimony that traces of nitroglycerine were detected on the hands of the defendants.
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Compensation Awarded:	£1 mil. on 6-7-2002
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	Innocent UK website
Information Location 1:	http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/birmingham6/
Information Source 2:	"The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 268-273"
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Paddy Joe Hill

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1975

Year Cleared:

1991

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Birmingham

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous expert testimony that traces of nitroglycerine were detected on the hands of the defendants.

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

£1 mil. on 6-7-2002

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

Innocent UK website

Information Location 1:

http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/birmingham6/

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"The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 268-273"

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