Sultan Shah

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
Sentence:	10 years
Years Imprisoned:	5
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Year Convicted:	1994
Year Cleared:	2010
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Sultan Shah was wrongly convicted in 1994 of conspiracy to import heroin. Shah was sentenced to ten years in prison. His conviction was affirmed two years later. He was imprisoned more than five years in custody before his release in 1999. In November 2010 England's Court of Appeals quashed Shah's conviction based on new evidence that the trial judge had been misled to believe the prosecution had attempted to trace three vital prosecution witnesses as justification for them not testifying, when no such steps had been taken."
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Innocence Proved By:	In November 2010 England's Court of Appeals quashed Shah's conviction.
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Age When Imprisoned:	26
Age When Released:	31
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Justice at last, but I've paid a price,' says Undercliffe man Sultan Shah, By Steve Wright, Telegraph and Argus (Bradford, England), November 4, 2010"
Information Location 1:	http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8493286.Dad_s_hell_is_over_after_five_years_in_prison_and_a_16_year_battle/
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Sultan Shah

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

10 years

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1994

Year Cleared:

2010

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

In November 2010 England's Court of Appeals quashed Shah's conviction.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

26

Age When Released:

31

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Justice at last, but I've paid a price,' says Undercliffe man Sultan Shah, By Steve Wright, Telegraph and Argus (Bradford, England), November 4, 2010"

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http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8493286.Dad_s_hell_is_over_after_five_years_in_prison_and_a_16_year_battle/

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