Donald Pendleton

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	16
Year Crime:	1971
Year Convicted:	1986
Year Cleared:	2001
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Donald Pendleton was wrongly convicted of the 1971 murder of a newspaper seller based on his false confession. Pendleton had been eliminated as a suspect when the murder was investigated, but 14 years later in 1985 a suspect in the murder allegedly implicated Pendleton to deflect attention away from him. Pendleton's conviction was quashed by the House of Lords on December 13, 2001."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession to a murder he had nothing to do with.
Innocence Proved By:	"Conviction quashed by the House of Lords on December 13, 2001."
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Age When Imprisoned:	41
Age When Released:	57
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
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Donald Pendleton

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

1971

Year Convicted:

1986

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession to a murder he had nothing to do with.

Innocence Proved By:

"Conviction quashed by the House of Lords on December 13, 2001."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

41

Age When Released:

57

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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Innocent UK website

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

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"Recent Case Statatistics, Criminal Cases Review Commission"

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http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/latestnews/latestnews_case.html

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