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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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Charge: |
Harassment |
Sentence: |
9 months probation |
Year Convicted: |
2006 |
Year
Cleared:
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2008 |
Location
of Trial:
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Indiana |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal) |
Summary
of Case:
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"Wrongly convicted as a juvenile of what for an adult would have been the criminal charge of Harassment, for her posting of allegedly objectionable comments about her high school principal on a MySpace.com webpage. On May 13, 2008 the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove she had any criminal intent to harass the principal." |
Conviction
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Innocence
Proved By:
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"On May 13, 2008 the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove she had any criminal intent to harass the principal."
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Information Source 1: |
"A.B. v. Indiana, 67s01-0709-jv-373 (Indiana Sup. Ct. May 13, 2008)" |
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"Justices overturn girl's myspace conviction, Indianapolis Star, May 14, 2008" |
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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/NEWS02/805140472 |
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