Michael Shirley

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	16
Year Crime:	1985
Year Convicted:	1987
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Michael Shirley was wrongly convicted in 1987 of murdering a barmaid in 1985. DNA tests of crime scene evidence unavailable at the time of Michael Shirley's trial excluded him as the woman's assailant. Based on the new evidence Shirley's conviction was quashed on July 3, 2003 by the UK's Court of Appeals. One of the few people in the UK exonerated by DNA testing."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Conviction quashed on July 3, 2003 by the UK's Court of Appeals, based on DNA testing unavailable at the time of his trial that excluded him as the assailant."
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Information Source 1:	"Man Cleared After 16 Years in Jail, The Scotsman, July 4, 2003"
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Michael Shirley

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

1985

Year Convicted:

1987

Year Cleared:

2003

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:

Innocence Proved By:

"Conviction quashed on July 3, 2003 by the UK's Court of Appeals, based on DNA testing unavailable at the time of his trial that excluded him as the assailant."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

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"Man Cleared After 16 Years in Jail, The Scotsman, July 4, 2003"

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http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=647&id=727132003

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