Richard Trudel

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
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Years Imprisoned:	16
Year Crime:	1990
Year Convicted:	1996
Year Cleared:	2007
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Canada
County or Region of Crime:	Ontario
City of Crime:	Cumberland
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Richard Trudel was a co-defendant of James Sauvé. Both men were convicted in 1996 of the 1990 murder of a man and his pregnant wife in Cumberland, Ontario. Their jury trial that lasted 16 months was the longest in Canadian history. In 2004 the men's convictions were overturned on appeal and a retrial ordered. After the prosecution stalled in retrying the men for 3 years the charges were stayed on January 12, 2007 and the men were released after more than 16 years of wrongful imprisonment. They were also co-defendants of Richard Mallory and Robert Stewart who were convicted in 2000 after their trial was severed from the trial of Sauvé and Trudel. Mallory and Stewart were released in March 2007. All four men were arrested in December 1990."
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Innocence Proved By:	The men's charges were stayed in January 2007 and they were released.
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Age When Imprisoned:	24
Age When Released:	39
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Charges dropped in 16-year-old murder case, By Paula McCooey, Ottawa Sun, January 15, 2007"
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Information Source 3:	"Men jailed 17 years in murder trial demand public inquiry, Staff report, CBC News, March 15, 2007"
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Richard Trudel

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

1990

Year Convicted:

1996

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Canada

County or Region of Crime:

Ontario

City of Crime:

Cumberland

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

The men's charges were stayed in January 2007 and they were released.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

24

Age When Released:

39

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Charges dropped in 16-year-old murder case, By Paula McCooey, Ottawa Sun, January 15, 2007"

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"Men jailed 17 years in murder trial demand public inquiry, Staff report, CBC News, March 15, 2007"

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2007/03/15/cumberland.html

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