A. B. (Scottish defendant)

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Charge:	Contempt of Court
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Year Crime:	2013
Year Convicted:	2013
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	Scotland
City of Crime:	Edinburgh
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	A. B. and C. D. were codefendants wrongly convicted of contempt of court in 2013.
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Innocence Proved By:	"On March 27, 2015 Scotland's Court of Sessions quashed the convictions of A.B. and C.D. on the basis the trial court did not rely on any evidence the two women intended to act in contempt of the court's order, but that they acted in the best interest of the two brothers involved as expected of them in their position as social workers."
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Sex:	Female
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Information Source 1:	"Social workers' conviction for stopping family contact quashed, By Cara Sulieman, STV.tv, March 27, 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://news.stv.tv/scotland/315309-social-workers-conviction-for-stopping-family-contact-quashed/
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A. B. (Scottish defendant)

Charge:

Contempt of Court

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2013

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

Scotland

City of Crime:

Edinburgh

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

A. B. and C. D. were codefendants wrongly convicted of contempt of court in 2013.

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Female

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"Social workers' conviction for stopping family contact quashed, By Cara Sulieman, STV.tv, March 27, 2015"

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http://news.stv.tv/scotland/315309-social-workers-conviction-for-stopping-family-contact-quashed/

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