Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Perverting the Course of Justice |
Sentence: |
12 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
4 |
Year Crime: |
2006 |
Year Convicted: |
2007 |
Year Cleared: |
2014 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
United Kingdom |
County or Region of Crime: |
England |
City of Crime: |
Birmingham |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
Conrad Steven Jones |
Conviction Caused By: |
Perjury by the prosecution's key witness. |
Innocence Proved By: |
"On July 4, 2014 England's Court of Appeal quashed Conrad Steven Jones' conviction on the basis the prosecution failed to disclose evidence to his trial lawyer that Jones was not in Nottingham at the time the alleged meeting took place -- which undermined the credibility of the prosecution's key witness." |
Defendant Aided By: |
"Joel Bennathan, QC, with the legal firm of Hadgkiss, Hughes & Beale in Birmingham, England" |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
40 |
Age When Released: |
44 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
Jones v R [2014] EWCA Crim 1337 (04 July 2014) |
Information Location 1: |
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2014/1337.html |
Information Source 2: |
"Appeal Court quashes conviction of man accused of trying to derail Coventry murder trial, By Staff Writer, Coventry Telegraph, July 4, 2014" |
Information Location 2: |
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/court-quashes-conviction-man-accused-7371915 |
Information Source 3: |
"Appeal Court quashes conviction of man accused of trying to derail Coventry murder trial, By Coventry Telegraph, Hadgkiss, Hughes & Beale (Birmingham, England), July 4, 2014" |
Information Location 3: |
http://hhb-law.blogspot.com/ |
Information Source 4: |
"Man on trial for witness interference, By Staff Writer, Coventry Telegraph, July 23 2007" |
Information Location 4: |
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/man-trial-witness-interference-3110404 |
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