Frank Johnson

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	27
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1976
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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City of Crime:
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Frank Johnson was wrongly convicted of setting a shop keeper on fire on Feb. 3, 1975. The shop keeper, who lived for three weeks after the incident, told police that Johnson wasn't his assailant. In "a statement taken from Mr. Sheridan shortly before he died ... he dismissed suggestions that Johnson was involved in the attack." (TI, 6-26-02). While hospitalized before his death, the shop keeper described Johnson to the police as "a grand lad." (TG, 6-24-02) Prosecutors not only concealed the exonerating statements by the shop keeper for over 25 years, but they claimed the shop keeper had been too injured to answer any questions. Continuing to assert his innocence for decades in prison, for years Johnson turned down parole from prison conditioned on his admission of guilt to a crime he didn't commit. Johnson's appeal was heard in England's Court of Appeals in June 2002 and his conviction was quashed on June 26, 2002."
Conviction Caused By:	"Prosecutorial misconduct of concealing a statement by the shop keeper, Mr. Sheridan, that Frank A. Johnson wasn't his assailant, and that he was "a grand lad.""
Innocence Proved By:	"Discovery of exonerating statement by the shop keeper, Mr. Sheridan. Ct. of Appeals quashed convictions on June 26, 2002."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	""Man's mental illness 'should have prevented murder trial,' " Ian Burrell, The Independent, June 26, 2002"
Information Location 1:	http://mail.justice.com/mail/msg/SID=5DhAGm9LjU4_ZBqFd9anmzWbsD8Xq7kifvyBIVjobdy7Qc1VThGonEBG+qNwHIII?fld=Inbox&id=1336
Information Source 2:	""Frank Johnson is Free""
Information Location 2:	mojuk@mojuk.org.uk
Information Source 3:	""Victim's evidence may free man in jail since 1976," Nick Hopkins (crime correspondent), The Guardian, London, June 24, 2002"
Information Location 3:	"http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4447083,00.html"
Information Source 4:	"Recent Case Statatistics, Criminal Cases Review Commission"
Information Location 4:	http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/latestnews/latestnews_case.html
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Frank Johnson

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

27

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1976

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Prosecutorial misconduct of concealing a statement by the shop keeper, Mr. Sheridan, that Frank A. Johnson wasn't his assailant, and that he was "a grand lad.""

Innocence Proved By:

"Discovery of exonerating statement by the shop keeper, Mr. Sheridan. Ct. of Appeals quashed convictions on June 26, 2002."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

""Man's mental illness 'should have prevented murder trial,' " Ian Burrell, The Independent, June 26, 2002"

Information Location 1:

http://mail.justice.com/mail/msg/SID=5DhAGm9LjU4_ZBqFd9anmzWbsD8Xq7kifvyBIVjobdy7Qc1VThGonEBG+qNwHIII?fld=Inbox&id=1336

Information Source 2:

""Frank Johnson is Free""

Information Location 2:

mojuk@mojuk.org.uk

Information Source 3:

""Victim's evidence may free man in jail since 1976," Nick Hopkins (crime correspondent), The Guardian, London, June 24, 2002"

Information Location 3:

"http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4447083,00.html"

Information Source 4:

"Recent Case Statatistics, Criminal Cases Review Commission"

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http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/latestnews/latestnews_case.html

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