Bakari Saidi

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	16
Year Crime:	1993
Year Convicted:	1995
Year Cleared:	2009
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Tanzania
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in 1995 of murdering a man in 1993 along with a co-defendant who confessed to the crime and implicated Bakari Saidi as his accomplice. The co-defendant later recanted his statement that Saidi was involved, and claimed he was solely responsible. Saidi was sentenced to death. In May 2009 Tanzania's Court of Appeal quashed Saidi's conviction and ordered his release, ruling that the circumstantial evidence the trial judge relied on to find Saidi guity was not conclusive."
Conviction Caused By:	The trial judge relied on inclusive circumstantial evidence to find Saidi guilty.
Innocence Proved By:	"In May 2009 Tanzania's Court of Appeal quashed Saidi's conviction and ordered his release,"
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Man cleared of murder after 16 years in jail, By Bernard James, The Citizen (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania), May 26, 2009"
Information Location 1:	http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/newe.php?id=12713
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Bakari Saidi

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

1993

Year Convicted:

1995

Year Cleared:

2009

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Tanzania

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

The trial judge relied on inclusive circumstantial evidence to find Saidi guilty.

Innocence Proved By:

"In May 2009 Tanzania's Court of Appeal quashed Saidi's conviction and ordered his release,"

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Man cleared of murder after 16 years in jail, By Bernard James, The Citizen (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania), May 26, 2009"

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http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/newe.php?id=12713

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