Johnson Sserubiri

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	6
Year Crime:	2001
Year Convicted:	2003
Year Cleared:	2007
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Uganda
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Johnson Sserubiri was wrongly convicted in January 2003 of an April 2001 murder in his village of a man who he had threatened for supposedly bewitching his father before he died. Johnson's conviction was solely based on the threats, since there was no witness or any physical or forensic evidence linking him to the murder. In June 2007 Uganda's Court of Appeal quashed Johnson's conviction and ordered his acquittal on the basis that a suspicion Johnson might have committed the crime was insufficient evidence to support his conviction. He was released later that day after six years of wrongful imprisonment."
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Innocence Proved By:	In June 2007 Uganda's Court of Appeal quashed Johnson's conviction and ordered his acquittal on the basis that a suspicion Johnson might have committed the crime was insufficient evidence to support his conviction.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Court of Appeal frees Mubende murder convict, By Hillary Nsambu, The New Vision (Kampala, Uganda), June 27, 2007"
Information Location 1:	http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/572859
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Johnson Sserubiri

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

6

Year Crime:

2001

Year Convicted:

2003

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Uganda

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

In June 2007 Uganda's Court of Appeal quashed Johnson's conviction and ordered his acquittal on the basis that a suspicion Johnson might have committed the crime was insufficient evidence to support his conviction.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Court of Appeal frees Mubende murder convict, By Hillary Nsambu, The New Vision (Kampala, Uganda), June 27, 2007"

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http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/572859

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