Colin Wallace

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Charge:	Manslaughter
Sentence:	10 years
Years Imprisoned:	6
Year Crime:	1980
Year Convicted:	1981
Year Cleared:	1996
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Colin Wallace was wrongly convicted in 1981 of killing a friend in 1980. His conviction was reversed on October 9, 1996, 9 years after his release from prison"
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Innocence Proved By:	"New scientific tests established there was no physical evidence linking Colin Wallace to the murder, contrary to the prosecution's theory of the case at trial that induced the jury to wrongly convict him."
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Age When Imprisoned:	38
Age When Released:	44
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
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Book About Case:	"Who Framed Colin Wallace? by Paul Foot (Pan Books (England), 1990)"
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Colin Wallace

Charge:

Manslaughter

Sentence:

10 years

Years Imprisoned:

6

Year Crime:

1980

Year Convicted:

1981

Year Cleared:

1996

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Colin Wallace was wrongly convicted in 1981 of killing a friend in 1980. His conviction was reversed on October 9, 1996, 9 years after his release from prison"

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"New scientific tests established there was no physical evidence linking Colin Wallace to the murder, contrary to the prosecution's theory of the case at trial that induced the jury to wrongly convict him."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

38

Age When Released:

44

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

Innocent UK website

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http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/

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Book About Case:

"Who Framed Colin Wallace? by Paul Foot (Pan Books (England), 1990)"

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