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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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Charge: |
Conspiracy to violate one or more laws. |
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Year Convicted: |
1977 |
Year
Cleared:
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2002 |
Location
of Trial:
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United Kingdom |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal) |
Summary
of Case:
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Codefendant of Reginald Dudley, Robert Maynard and Charlie Clark. Exonerated on July 17, 2002 of conspiracy related to the 1974 murder of Micky Cornwall that her father and Maynard and Clarke were wrongly convicted of committing. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Police fabricated confessions allegedly made by Reg Dudley and Bob Maynard, and in exchange for a lighter sentence, a jailhouse snitch fabricated an alleged confession by the two men to the two murders. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Court of Appeals quashed conviction on July 17, 2002, after referral by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
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Information Source 1: |
"Torso Murder Convictions Quashed," Vikram Dodd, Guardian Unlimited, London, July 17, 2002" |
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http://innocent.org.uk/cases/rdudley/ |
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Recent Case Statatistics, Criminal Cases Review Commission |
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http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/latestnews/latestnews_case.html |
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Comments About Case: |
Falsely confessed |
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