{"id":839,"date":"2009-03-19T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2009-03-19T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:23:00","slug":"murder-conviction-overturned-after-27-years-due-to-dna-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Murder conviction overturned after 27 years due to DNA evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>57-year-old Sean Hodgson\u00a0was present in the dock to hear the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, and two other senior judges in London, rule that his 1982 murder\u00a0conviction was \u201cunsafe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The safety of the conviction was reviewed in the light of new DNA evidence &#8211; which showed that he could not have been the murderer.<br \/>\n<object width=\"486\" height=\"412\" data=\"http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/1137883380\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=16819278001&amp;playerId=1137883380&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/console.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&amp;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/1137883380\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/lawandorder\/5010479\/Sean-Hodgson-murder-conviction-overturned-after-27-years-due-to-DNA-evidence.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>57-year-old Sean Hodgson\u00a0was present in the dock to hear the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, and two other senior judges in London, rule that his 1982 murder\u00a0conviction was \u201cunsafe\u201d. The safety of the conviction was reviewed in the light of new DNA evidence &#8211; which showed that he could not have been the murderer. News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}