Scott Alan May

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	36 years with minimum of 27 years in prison
Years Imprisoned:	5.5
Year Crime:	2003
Year Convicted:	2008
Year Cleared:	2012
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Australia
County or Region of Crime:	New South Wales
City of Crime:	Sydney
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Scott Alan May was wrongly convicted in 2008 of a murder in Sydney, Australia in May 2003. May was sentenced to 36 years in prison with the requirment he serve a minimum of 27 years. On May 31, 2012 the New South Wales Court of Appeals quashed May's conviction and acquitted him based on their finding the testimony of the prosecution's key witness, Ryan Barry Burnes, was wholly unreliable and provided "incredible" testimony, and there was a significant possibility May was innocent. Justice Carolyn Simpson wrote in her ruling, "It is quite apparent that he was seriously psychiatrically unstable. For that reason alone, it would be difficult to place reliance on his evidence in a conviction for murder." Justice Ian Harrison agreed that Burnes "emerges as a wholly incredible and unreliable witness.""
Conviction Caused By:	Unreliable testimony by the prosecution's key witness.
Innocence Proved By:	"On May 31, 2012 the New South Wales Court of Appeals quashed May's conviction and acquitted him based on their finding the prosecution's key witness was wholly unreliable and provided "incredible" testimony, and there was a significant possibility May was innocent."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	Scott Alan May v Regina [2012] NSWCCA 111 (31 May 2012)
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Information Source 2:	"NSW:Convicted murderer's conviction quashed, By Isabel Hayes, AAP General News Wire (Sydney, Australia), May 31, 2012"
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Scott Alan May

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

36 years with minimum of 27 years in prison

Years Imprisoned:

5.5

Year Crime:

2003

Year Convicted:

2008

Year Cleared:

2012

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Australia

County or Region of Crime:

New South Wales

City of Crime:

Sydney

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Unreliable testimony by the prosecution's key witness.

Innocence Proved By:

"On May 31, 2012 the New South Wales Court of Appeals quashed May's conviction and acquitted him based on their finding the prosecution's key witness was wholly unreliable and provided "incredible" testimony, and there was a significant possibility May was innocent."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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Scott Alan May v Regina [2012] NSWCCA 111 (31 May 2012)

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"NSW:Convicted murderer's conviction quashed, By Isabel Hayes, AAP General News Wire (Sydney, Australia), May 31, 2012"

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