Bernard Murphy

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	10
Year Crime:	1991
Year Convicted:	1992
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Manchester
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Bernard Murphy and his codefendant John Brannan were wrongfully convicted in February 1992 of murdering Michael Pollitt during an altercation in a Manchester, England nightclub in June 1991. Both men were sentenced to life in prison. Murphy and Brannan were denied leave to appeal in 1993. John Brannan was 36 when he committed suicide in December 1998 at Blundeston Prison in Suffolk. Based on new evidence that Murphy and Brannan acted in self-defense against Pollitt who had a gun, the Criminal Case Review Commission referred their case to the Court of Appeals. On January 25, 2002 the Court of Appeals quashed the conviction of Murphy and posthumously Brannan, based on the new self-defense evidence. Murphy was released following the Court's ruling, and he told reporters, "I am just sorry that my friend John Brannan isn't here with me to hear his name cleared.""
Conviction Caused By:
Innocence Proved By:	"Court of Appeals quashed Murphy and Brannon's convictions on January 25, 2002."
Defendant Aided By:	"Criminal Case Review Commission (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland)"
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	27
Age When Released:	37
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Murder charge prisoner cleared after his suicide, By Nigel Bunyan (Staff writer), The Telegraph (London, England), January 26, 2002"
Information Location 1:	http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1382701/Murder-charge-prisoner-cleared-after-his-suicide.html
Information Source 2:	R. v. Murphy and John Brannan [2002] EWCA Crim 120
Information Location 2:	http://netk.net.au/UK/BrannanMurphy.asp
Information Source 3:	Innocent UK website
Information Location 3:	http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/
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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Bernard Murphy

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

1991

Year Convicted:

1992

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Manchester

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Court of Appeals quashed Murphy and Brannon's convictions on January 25, 2002."

Defendant Aided By:

"Criminal Case Review Commission (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland)"

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

27

Age When Released:

37

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Murder charge prisoner cleared after his suicide, By Nigel Bunyan (Staff writer), The Telegraph (London, England), January 26, 2002"

Information Location 1:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1382701/Murder-charge-prisoner-cleared-after-his-suicide.html

Information Source 2:

R. v. Murphy and John Brannan [2002] EWCA Crim 120

Information Location 2:

http://netk.net.au/UK/BrannanMurphy.asp

Information Source 3:

Innocent UK website

Information Location 3:

http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/

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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