Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Murder and Conspiracy |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Years Imprisoned: |
23 |
Year Crime: |
1974 |
Year Convicted: |
1977 |
Year Cleared: |
2002 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
United Kingdom |
County or Region of Crime: |
England |
City of Crime: |
Hertfordshire |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Robert Maynard was a codefendant of Reginald Dudley, Kathleen Bailey, and Charlie Clarke. The Criminal Case Review Commission referred their case to the Court of Appeals on June 21, 2000. The convictions of the four were quashed by the Court of Appeal on July 16, 2002 after being falsely convicted in 1977 of two 1974 murders. Dudley and Maynard were arrested in November 1976. Maynard was wrongly imprisoned for over 23 years until his release in 2000 on bond." |
Conviction Caused By: |
"Police fabricated confessions allegedly made by Reg Dudley and Bob Maynard, and in exchange for a lighter sentence, a jailhouse snitch fabricated an alleged confession by the two men to the two murders." |
Innocence Proved By: |
"Court of Appeals quashed conviction on July 17, 2002, after referral by the Criminal Cases Review Commission" |
Defendant Aided By: |
Criminal Case Review Commission |
Compensation Awarded: |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
38 |
Age When Released: |
63 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"R. v. Robert Maynard, Reginald Dudley, Kathleen Bailey and Charles Clarke [2002] EWCA Crim 1942" |
Information Location 1: |
http://netk.net.au/UK/Maynard.asp |
Information Source 2: |
"Torso Murder Convictions Quashed," Vikram Dodd, Guardian Unlimited, London, July 17, 2002" |
Information Location 2: |
http://innocent.org.uk/cases/rdudley/ |
Information Source 3: |
"Justice was 'a long time coming', By Staff Writer, BBC News, July 21, 2002" |
Information Location 3: |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2133790.stm |
Information Source 4: |
"Recent Case Statatistics, Criminal Cases Review Commission" |
Information Location 4: |
http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/latestnews/latestnews_case.html |
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