Yeung Kiu-yue

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Charge:	Animal Cruelty
Sentence:	16 months
Years Imprisoned:	0.1
Year Crime:	2012
Year Convicted:	2014
Year Cleared:	2014
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Hong Kong
County or Region of Crime:	Hong Kong
City of Crime:	Hong Kong
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Yeung Kiu-yue was wrongly convicted of animal cruelty for being one of a group of men who kicked a cat "like a soccer ball" in Hong Kong on November 16, 2012. The prosecution's case at trial was based on a single eyewitness who said Kiu-yue resembled a man involved in the crime who was wearing wearing a black coat and blue jeans. Kie-yue was convicted even though CCTV footage showed two people dressed that way and neither was identifiable as Kie-yue. Kie-yue was sentenced to 16 months in prison. He appealed, and on August 4, 2014 Hong Kong's High Court quashed Yeung Kiu-yue's conviction on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence he was at the scene of the crime."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous eyewitness identification.
Innocence Proved By:	"On August 4, 2014 Hong Kong's High Court quashed Yeung Kiu-yue's conviction on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence that he was present at the scene of the crime."
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Age When Imprisoned:	26
Age When Released:	26
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Conviction quashed, jail term cut in cat cruelty case, By Julie Chu (Staff writer), South China Morning Post, August 5, 2014"
Information Location 1:	http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1566475/conviction-quashed-jail-term-cut-cat-cruelty-case
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Yeung Kiu-yue

Charge:

Animal Cruelty

Sentence:

16 months

Years Imprisoned:

0.1

Year Crime:

2012

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2014

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Hong Kong

County or Region of Crime:

Hong Kong

City of Crime:

Hong Kong

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous eyewitness identification.

Innocence Proved By:

"On August 4, 2014 Hong Kong's High Court quashed Yeung Kiu-yue's conviction on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence that he was present at the scene of the crime."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

26

Age When Released:

26

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Conviction quashed, jail term cut in cat cruelty case, By Julie Chu (Staff writer), South China Morning Post, August 5, 2014"

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http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1566475/conviction-quashed-jail-term-cut-cat-cruelty-case

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