Steven Jones Kelly

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Charge:	Rape
Sentence:	3 years
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1999
Year Convicted:	2000
Year Cleared:	2001
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Canada
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Steven Jones Kelly was wrongly convicted in 2000 of raping a friend's wife after a party in 1999. The woman claimed he raped her while she was in bed with her husband. But the jury wasn't told that only her husband's DNA was recovered from her. Steven Kelly was sentenced to three years imprisonment. In June 2007 he Court of Appeal quashed Kelly's conviction, ruling the failure to inform the jury that the woman's testimony was contrary to the physical (DNA) evidence that he hadn't had sex with her made his conviction unsafe. Kelly was released after a year of wrongful imprisonment."
Conviction Caused By:	Alleged victim fabricated story of being raped.
Innocence Proved By:	"In June 2007 he Court of Appeal quashed Kelly's conviction, ruling the failure to inform the jury that the woman's testimony was contrary to the physical (DNA) evidence that he hadn't had sex with her made his conviction unsafe. Kelly was released after a year of wrongful imprisonment."
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Information Source 1:	"Rape Conviction Quashed, By Kevin Wilson, Northern News Services, June 27, 2001"
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Steven Jones Kelly

Charge:

Rape

Sentence:

3 years

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1999

Year Convicted:

2000

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Canada

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City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Alleged victim fabricated story of being raped.

Innocence Proved By:

"In June 2007 he Court of Appeal quashed Kelly's conviction, ruling the failure to inform the jury that the woman's testimony was contrary to the physical (DNA) evidence that he hadn't had sex with her made his conviction unsafe. Kelly was released after a year of wrongful imprisonment."

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Male

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"Rape Conviction Quashed, By Kevin Wilson, Northern News Services, June 27, 2001"

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http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2001-06/jun27_01crt.html

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