Finnish Rights Activist

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Charge:	Arson
Sentence:	3 years
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	2008
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Year Cleared:	2011
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Finland
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City of Crime:	Turku
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted of the arson of a fur shop in Turku, Finland in July 2008. The 25-year-old animal rights activist was convicted based on his confession to a doctor weeks after the fire. During his trial he denied setting the fire, but said he told the doctor he did because he thought it would make it easier for him to get treatment for a mental health complaint. On October 27, 2011 Finland's Supreme Court overturned his conviction, ruling that his confession was insufficent evidence, because it contained only publicly known information and DNA tests of trousers found in a trash bin near where the fire was started that had his DNA mixed with another persons was not sufficent because it is unknown when the trousers, that had no evidence on them linking them to the fire, were put in the trash bin. (Finnish news reports didn't include the man's name.)"
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Innocence Proved By:	"On October 27, 2011 Finland's Supreme Court overturned his conviction based on insufficent evidence."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Supreme Court overturns arson conviction of animal rights activist, Staff report, Helsingin Sanomat, November 4, 2011"
Information Location 1:	http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Supreme+Court+overturns+arson+conviction+of+animal+rights+activist/1135269810586
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Finnish Rights Activist

Charge:

Arson

Sentence:

3 years

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

2008

Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

2011

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Finland

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Turku

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On October 27, 2011 Finland's Supreme Court overturned his conviction based on insufficent evidence."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Supreme Court overturns arson conviction of animal rights activist, Staff report, Helsingin Sanomat, November 4, 2011"

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http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Supreme+Court+overturns+arson+conviction+of+animal+rights+activist/1135269810586

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