Janel Anne Boekeman

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Charge:	Resisting Police
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Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:	2009
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Year Cleared:	2011
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Australia
County or Region of Crime:	New South Wales
City of Crime:	Armidale
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Janel Anne Boekeman was wrongly convicted of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia in September 2009. Ms. Boekeman's convictions were overturned in 2011 based on new video tape evidence that it was the police who assaulted Ms. Boekeman, a 33-year-old mother of three. Ms. Boekeman was awarded an undisclosed amount of compensation in 2013."
Conviction Caused By:	Police perjury about the events that resulted in Ms. Boekeman being beaten by the police officers.
Innocence Proved By:	"Ms. Boekeman's convictions were overturned in 2011 based on new video tape evidence that it was the police who assaulted Ms. Boekeman, a 33-year-old mother of three."
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Compensation Awarded:	Yes
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Janel Anne Boekeman, No. 2009/262917, District Court of New South Wales at Sydney, August 29, 2011"
Information Location 1:	http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/boekeman-judgement/4935986
Information Source 2:	"NSW woman punched during police search in Armidale fights for investigation into officers, By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop (police reporter), ABC, September 5, 2013"
Information Location 2:	http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/woman-fights-for-investigation-after-violent-police-search/4935994
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Janel Anne Boekeman

Charge:

Resisting Police

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2009

Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

2011

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Australia

County or Region of Crime:

New South Wales

City of Crime:

Armidale

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Police perjury about the events that resulted in Ms. Boekeman being beaten by the police officers.

Innocence Proved By:

"Ms. Boekeman's convictions were overturned in 2011 based on new video tape evidence that it was the police who assaulted Ms. Boekeman, a 33-year-old mother of three."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Yes

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Janel Anne Boekeman, No. 2009/262917, District Court of New South Wales at Sydney, August 29, 2011"

Information Location 1:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/boekeman-judgement/4935986

Information Source 2:

"NSW woman punched during police search in Armidale fights for investigation into officers, By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop (police reporter), ABC, September 5, 2013"

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/woman-fights-for-investigation-after-violent-police-search/4935994

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