Simon Kennedy

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Charge:	Manslaughter
Sentence:	5 years
Years Imprisoned:	2.5
Year Crime:	1996
Year Convicted:	1997
Year Cleared:	2007
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Simon Kennedy was wrongly convicted in November 1997 of manslaughter in the death of a friend who died of a heroin overdose. Simon Kennedy was convicted on the basis that he prepared the syringe of heroin, although the man personally injected it into himself. Kennedy was sentenced to five years in prison. In October 2007 the House of Lords quashed Kennedy's conviction on the basis that the dead man knowingly chose to inject the heroin, and therefore Kennedy had no criminal liability in the death."
Conviction Caused By:	False prosecution theory of the crime that preparing the syringe with heroin made Kennedy liable in the man's death.
Innocence Proved By:	"In October 2007 the House of Lords quashed Kennedy's conviction on the basis that the dead man knowingly chose to inject the heroin, and therefore Kennedy had no criminal liability in the death"
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	R v kennedy (no 2) [2007] ukhl 38
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Information Source 2:	"Heroin death conviction quashed, BBC News, October 17, 2007"
Information Location 2:	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7048964.stm
Information Source 3:	"Preparation of heroin syringe does not constitute manslaughter, The Times (London, UK), October 19, 2007"
Information Location 3:	http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/reports/article2689578.ece
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Simon Kennedy

Charge:

Manslaughter

Sentence:

5 years

Years Imprisoned:

2.5

Year Crime:

1996

Year Convicted:

1997

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False prosecution theory of the crime that preparing the syringe with heroin made Kennedy liable in the man's death.

Innocence Proved By:

"In October 2007 the House of Lords quashed Kennedy's conviction on the basis that the dead man knowingly chose to inject the heroin, and therefore Kennedy had no criminal liability in the death"

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

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Information Source 1:

R v kennedy (no 2) [2007] ukhl 38

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Information Source 2:

"Heroin death conviction quashed, BBC News, October 17, 2007"

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7048964.stm

Information Source 3:

"Preparation of heroin syringe does not constitute manslaughter, The Times (London, UK), October 19, 2007"

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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/reports/article2689578.ece

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