Vincent Lawrence Agius

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Charge:	Assault (Including Battery)
Sentence:	18 months
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
Year Crime:	2013
Year Convicted:	2015
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Australia
County or Region of Crime:	Queensland
City of Crime:	Noosa Heads
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Vincent Lawrence Agius was wrongly convicted in June 2015 of assault with intent to steal with threats of actual violence, for demanding opiate-based drugs by silently slipping a piece of torn cardboard inscribed with a note to a pharmacist in a pharmacy at the Noosa Fair Shopping Centre in Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia on May 21, 2013. After his trial Agius was sentenced to 18 months in jail with a minimum of 9 months. Agius appealed. On December 18, 2015 the Queensland Court of Appeal unanimously quashed Agius' conviction and ordered his acquittal. The Court ruled his conviction was unreasonable and the evidence did not support it because he did not apply any force, because handing over the note was a means of communicating a demand, but no force was threatened. "
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Innocence Proved By:	"On December 18, 2015 the Queensland Court of Appeal unanimously quashed Agius' conviction and ordered his acquittal. The Court ruled his conviction was unreasonable and the evidence did not support it because he did not apply any force, because handing over the note was a means of communicating a demand, but no force was threatened."
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Information Source 1:	R v Agius [2015] QCA 277 (18 December 2015) (Quashing conviction based on insufficient evidence of guilt.)
Information Location 1:	http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QCA/2015/277.html
Information Source 2:	"Man who demanded drugs at pharmacy has conviction overturned, By Rae Wilson, The Morning Bulletin, December 19, 2015"
Information Location 2:	http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/man-demanded-drugs-at-pharmacy-has-conviction-over/2878118/
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Vincent Lawrence Agius

Charge:

Assault (Including Battery)

Sentence:

18 months

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2015

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Australia

County or Region of Crime:

Queensland

City of Crime:

Noosa Heads

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

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Male

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Information Source 1:

R v Agius [2015] QCA 277 (18 December 2015) (Quashing conviction based on insufficient evidence of guilt.)

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http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QCA/2015/277.html

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"Man who demanded drugs at pharmacy has conviction overturned, By Rae Wilson, The Morning Bulletin, December 19, 2015"

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http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/man-demanded-drugs-at-pharmacy-has-conviction-over/2878118/

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