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Ched Evans - serious injury
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EL APACHE TEVEZ
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Big big pay daySo if it's a not guilty verdict this time round, Evans is in for a big pay out.
kas_tippler
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Retrial not a not guilty verdict.
manctheknife
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Always remember...."If the glove don't fit....you must aquit"
I Hart Man City
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Over 4 years of shit and stress that could easily have been avoided if he'd just gone home and had a wank instead of licking out a bird his mate had literally just fucked.
Under section 133(1ZA) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, he's eligible for compensation only if his new evidence "shows beyond reasonable doubt that the person did not commit the offence": http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/mojas/guidance/#jump-6. I don't know what his new evidence is, but it would seem unlikely if it's going to a retrial.
supercity88
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So he's won his appeal against his conviction but has a new trial with the new evidence to decide what his punishment would have been... I suppose even if he's convicted again he's served the time... but that's a hell of a lot of time, money and effort to go through in order to try and get cleared. It's also a hell of a lot of trauma for the girl involved who has to go through it all again.
Here's the statement of Lady Justice Hallett read in court this morning: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/r-v-chedwyn-evans/
Evans appealed on the basis that "relevant and admissible evidence has come to light, that was not available at trial, and that undermines the safety of his conviction". The appeal court judges "have concluded that [they] must allow the appeal" but that "it is in the interests of justice to order a re-trial".
Reporting restrictions remain, so that's pretty much all anyone can say at this stage.
Evans appealed on the basis that "relevant and admissible evidence has come to light, that was not available at trial, and that undermines the safety of his conviction". The appeal court judges "have concluded that [they] must allow the appeal" but that "it is in the interests of justice to order a re-trial".
Reporting restrictions remain, so that's pretty much all anyone can say at this stage.
So he's won his appeal against his conviction but has a new trial with the new evidence to decide what his punishment would have been... I suppose even if he's convicted again he's served the time... but that's a hell of a lot of time, money and effort to go through in order to try and get cleared. It's also a hell of a lot of trauma for the girl involved who has to go through it all again.
However, if you believe yourself to be innocent, you'd fight to the end to prove it. At this very moment in time he's just served 2-3 years for an incorrect conviction. Trauma on both sides in this case.