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Circumstances Grave and Unusual
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Nicholls’s findings led to the exoneration of Rose Gooding at a special hearing of the Court of Criminal Appeal. Sir Archibald Bodkin, the DPP, briefed the barrister Travers Humphreys to disown the prosecutions. Humphreys took on the odd role of the prosecutor proclaiming the prisoner’s innocence while the defence counsel stood and nodded. The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed Rose Gooding’s convictions and made the unusual decision not to hear any evidence in open court, so as to allow the prosecutors to build up a case against a new defendant, Edith Swan. Gooding returned home and the Home Office began arranging compensation, comparing her ordeal with those of other victims of miscarriages of justice, from Adolf Beck onwards, and settling on an award of £250.
Title: Circumstances Grave and Unusual
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Nicholls’s findings led to the exoneration of Rose Gooding at a special hearing of the Court of Criminal Appeal.
Sir Archibald Bodkin, the DPP, briefed the barrister Travers Humphreys to disown the prosecutions.
Humphreys took on the odd role of the prosecutor proclaiming the prisoner’s innocence while the defence counsel stood and nodded.
The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed Rose Gooding’s convictions and made the unusual decision not to hear any evidence in open court, so as to allow the prosecutors to build up a case against a new defendant, Edith Swan.
Gooding returned home and the Home Office began arranging compensation, comparing her ordeal with those of other victims of miscarriages of justice, from Adolf Beck onwards, and settling on an award of £250.
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