Olatunji Olaide

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	24
Year Crime:	1988
Year Convicted:	1995
Year Cleared:	2012
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Nigeria
County or Region of Crime:	Gwari
City of Crime:	Niger
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Olatunji Olaide was wrongly convicted in 1988 of murder. Olaide was arrested on the May 30, 1988 near Gwari in Niger state where he had travelled from Lagos to buy cattle to be transported to Lagos. Olaide was transported to Adeniji Adele Police Station in Lagos. The police didn't tell Olaide what he had been arrested for, but after torturing him he signed a confession to murder that the police had prepared. Olaide's trial started in 1989, but it wasn't concluded until six years later when he was found guilty and on trial started in 1989 and it ran on for 6 years until February 15, 1995, when Justice Da Silva found him guilty and sentenced him to death. Olaide I told the judge that day, “You have condemned me, but God did not condemn me.” In 2005 the Legal Defence and Assistance Project in Lagos accepted Olaide's case. Seven years later, on June 5, 2012 the Court of Appeals quashed Olaide's conviction and he was released from the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison.later that day. He had spent 17 years on death row, and more than 24 years in custody."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On June 5, 2012 the Court of Appeals quashed Olaide's conviction and he was released later that day."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Sentenced to Death, An Innocent Man Steps Out After 24 Years in Prison – Olatunji Olaide shares his story of Survival, Freedom & Hope, By Olatunji Olaide, Legal Defence and Assistance Project (Lagos, Nigeria), June 18, 2015"
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Olatunji Olaide

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

24

Year Crime:

1988

Year Convicted:

1995

Year Cleared:

2012

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Nigeria

County or Region of Crime:

Gwari

City of Crime:

Niger

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On June 5, 2012 the Court of Appeals quashed Olaide's conviction and he was released later that day."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Sentenced to Death, An Innocent Man Steps Out After 24 Years in Prison – Olatunji Olaide shares his story of Survival, Freedom & Hope, By Olatunji Olaide, Legal Defence and Assistance Project (Lagos, Nigeria), June 18, 2015"

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http://ledapnigeria.org/bn-at-6-our-stories-our-miracles-sentenced-to-death-an-innocent-man-steps-out-after-24-years-in-prison-olatunji-olaide-shares-his-story-of-survival-freedom-hope/

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