Rungchalerm Kanokchawanchai

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	7
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Year Convicted:	1986
Year Cleared:	1993
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Thailand
County or Region of Crime:	Samut Prakan
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in 1986, along with three co-defendants, of the August 1986 murder of Sherry Ann Duncan, a Thai-American murdered in Samut Prakan. She was 16. Exonerated by Thailand's Supreme Court in 1993, after Rungchalerm Kanokchawanchai had died in prison. In October 2003, a Thai Civil Court made an unprecedented ruling when it ordered the Royal Thai Police Office to pay 26 million baht ($1 million) to the only one of the four defendants still alive, and relatives of the other three."
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Innocence Proved By:	Conviction quashed by Thailand's Supreme Court in 1993.
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Compensation Awarded:	"8.667 million baht (Thailand) (US$250,000)"
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Outcome in Sherry Ann Case, Outcome in Sherry Ann case, Thai News, Issue 59, October 2003"
Information Location 1:	http://www.thainews.com.au/past59a.html
Information Source 2:	"Daughter of wrongfully convicted man gets b11.9m, Bangkok Post, July 29, 2006"
Information Location 2:	http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Gy4epqvH6doJ:www.bangkokpost.net/News/29Jul2006_news19.php+Daughter+of+wrongfully+convicted+man+gets+B11.9m&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
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Movie About Case:	"Sherry Ann (2001), Thailand"
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Rungchalerm Kanokchawanchai

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

7

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1986

Year Cleared:

1993

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Thailand

County or Region of Crime:

Samut Prakan

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction quashed by Thailand's Supreme Court in 1993.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"8.667 million baht (Thailand) (US$250,000)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Outcome in Sherry Ann Case, Outcome in Sherry Ann case, Thai News, Issue 59, October 2003"

Information Location 1:

http://www.thainews.com.au/past59a.html

Information Source 2:

"Daughter of wrongfully convicted man gets b11.9m, Bangkok Post, July 29, 2006"

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http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Gy4epqvH6doJ:www.bangkokpost.net/News/29Jul2006_news19.php+Daughter+of+wrongfully+convicted+man+gets+B11.9m&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

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Movie About Case:

"Sherry Ann (2001), Thailand"

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