Joseph O'Reilly refused leave to appeal murder conviction

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Joseph O'Reilly was refused leave to appeal his murder conviction by the Supreme Court on 17 November 2016.

The court said the application concerned an earlier Court of Appeal decision dismissing his application to quash the conviction as an abuse of process. That application arose under section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1993, which permits a convicted person to seek an order quashing a conviction where a new or newly discovered fact allegedly shows a miscarriage of justice. The Supreme Court said its refusal concerned leave to appeal only and was not a determination of the substantive issues in another case.