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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Murder |
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Life Imprisonment |
Years Imprisoned: |
14 |
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1982 |
Year Cleared: |
2006 |
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United Kingdom |
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Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
Patrick Nolan was wrongly convicted in 1982 of the 1980 murder of a 64-year-old man. Nolan's conviction was based on his confession which he immediately retracted and that he claimed was made under duress by police interrogators physically mistreating him. Nolan's conviction quashed by the Court of Appeals in November 2006. |
Conviction Caused By: |
False confession after being mistreated by police interrogators. Police misconduct. |
Innocence Proved By: |
Conviction quashed by the Court of Appeals in November 2006. |
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Information Source 1: |
"Man jailed for murder cleared over suspect police confession, The Independent (London UK), November 11, 2006" |
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1963003.ece |
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