Omar Said Omar

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Charge:	Firearm & Explosives
Sentence:	8 years
Years Imprisoned:	5
Year Crime:	2003
Year Convicted:	2006
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Kenya
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in April 2006 of explosives and firearms and ammunition charges and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. Omar Said Omar appealed, and in September 2008 the Nairobi High Court overturned his conviction on the basis that he was in jail on an unrelated charge at the time the crimes were committed of which he was convicted. The Court also noted the illigality that he wasn't arraigned until October 2005, more than two years after his August 2003 arrest."
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Innocence Proved By:	In September 2008 the Nairobi High Court overturned his conviction on the basis that he was in jail on an unrelated charge at the time the crimes were committed of which he was convicted.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	Omar Said Omar alias Ahmed Ali Mohamed v Republic [2008] eKLR
Information Location 1:	http://kenyalaw.org/Downloads_FreeCases/Criminal_Appeal_169_of_2006.pdf
Information Source 2:	"Terror Suspect freed as court quashes jail term, By Caroline Rwenji and Richard Munguti, Daily Nation (Nairobi, Kenya), September 16, 2008"
Information Location 2:	http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/471606/-/tkt5gd/-/
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Omar Said Omar

Charge:

Firearm & Explosives

Sentence:

8 years

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

2003

Year Convicted:

2006

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Kenya

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

In September 2008 the Nairobi High Court overturned his conviction on the basis that he was in jail on an unrelated charge at the time the crimes were committed of which he was convicted.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

Omar Said Omar alias Ahmed Ali Mohamed v Republic [2008] eKLR

Information Location 1:

http://kenyalaw.org/Downloads_FreeCases/Criminal_Appeal_169_of_2006.pdf

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"Terror Suspect freed as court quashes jail term, By Caroline Rwenji and Richard Munguti, Daily Nation (Nairobi, Kenya), September 16, 2008"

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http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/471606/-/tkt5gd/-/

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