Devit Sugianto

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	12 years
Years Imprisoned:	1.25
Year Crime:	2007
Year Convicted:	2008
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Indonesia
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Co-defendant of Imam Khambali and Mamak Sugianto. All three men wrongfly convicted in May 2008 of the September 2007 murder of a man in East Java. The convictions were based on the men's confessions extracted under intense police pressure. DNA testing after the men were sentenced to between 12 and 17 years imprisonment proved that a fourth man who confessed was the lone assailant. Sugianto (aka Sugik) was released on September 25, 2008, and the other two were released in mid-December 2008."
Conviction Caused By:	False confessions by all three co-defendants extracted under intense police pressure.
Innocence Proved By:	A fourth man who confesed was identifed as the actual murderer who acted along based on DNA testing conducted after the three co-defendants had been convicted and sentenced.
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Fourteen police on trial over murder case, By Indra Harsaputra (staff writer), Jakarta Post (Jakarta, IDN), December 26, 2008"
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Devit Sugianto

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

12 years

Years Imprisoned:

1.25

Year Crime:

2007

Year Convicted:

2008

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Indonesia

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confessions by all three co-defendants extracted under intense police pressure.

Innocence Proved By:

A fourth man who confesed was identifed as the actual murderer who acted along based on DNA testing conducted after the three co-defendants had been convicted and sentenced.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"Fourteen police on trial over murder case, By Indra Harsaputra (staff writer), Jakarta Post (Jakarta, IDN), December 26, 2008"

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http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/12/26/fourteen-police-trial-over-murder-case.html

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