Willie Wakon

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Charge:	Unlawful assembly
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Year Crime:	2013
Year Convicted:	2015
Year Cleared:	2016
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Vanuatu
County or Region of Crime:	Efate
City of Crime:	Port Vila
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Willie Wakon, Tony Jack and Daniel Kalsau were codefendants wrongly convicted in 2015 of unlawful assembly in Vanuatu related to the death of David Ben Ngara at his home in Port Vila, Vanuatu on July 7, 2013. On November 18, 2016 the Vanuatu Court of Appeals quashed the convictions of Willie Wakon, Tony Jack and Daniel Kalsau on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence to prove their guilt of unlawful assembly beyond a reasonable doubt."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On November 18, 2016 the Vanuatu Court of Appeals quashed the convictions of Willie Wakon, Tony Jack and Daniel Kalsau on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence to prove their guilt of unlawful assembly beyond a reasonable doubt."
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Kal v Public Prosecutor [2016] VUCA 56; Criminal Appeal Case 2900 of 2016 (Court of Appeal of Vanuatu, November 18, 2016) (Reversing conviction)"
Information Location 1:	http://www.paclii.org/vu/cases/VUCA/2016/56.html
Information Source 2:	"Trio in murder case released after appeal, By Richard M. Nanua, The Vanuatu Independent, December 7, 2016"
Information Location 2:	https://vanuatuindependent.com/2016/12/07/trio-in-murder-case-released-after-appeal/
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Willie Wakon

Charge:

Unlawful assembly

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2015

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Vanuatu

County or Region of Crime:

Efate

City of Crime:

Port Vila

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On November 18, 2016 the Vanuatu Court of Appeals quashed the convictions of Willie Wakon, Tony Jack and Daniel Kalsau on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence to prove their guilt of unlawful assembly beyond a reasonable doubt."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Kal v Public Prosecutor [2016] VUCA 56; Criminal Appeal Case 2900 of 2016 (Court of Appeal of Vanuatu, November 18, 2016) (Reversing conviction)"

Information Location 1:

http://www.paclii.org/vu/cases/VUCA/2016/56.html

Information Source 2:

"Trio in murder case released after appeal, By Richard M. Nanua, The Vanuatu Independent, December 7, 2016"

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https://vanuatuindependent.com/2016/12/07/trio-in-murder-case-released-after-appeal/

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