Wellington—A New Zealand man who spent nearly 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit will receive
Alan Hall was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 after a man was fatally stabbed during an Auckland home invasion.
There was no forensic evidence linking Hall to the scene, and the assailant was said to be of a different height and ethnicity.Hall was released on parole in 1994 only to be sent back to jail in 2012 for breaching the conditions of his release. He was finally set free last year and acquitted. The Supreme Court also noted that Hall had an intellectual disability, and despite this was subjected to 20 hours of interrogation without his lawyer present. AFP
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