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Brandon Boland

 

Charge:

Drug Trafficking

Sentence:

9 months

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Canada

County or Region of Crime:

Newfoundland and Labrador

City of Crime:

Grand Bank

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

"Brandon Boland was wrongly convicted in 2014 of trafficking marijuana in Grand Bank, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada from November 7 to 21, 2013. Boland's conviction was based on the evidence from two prosecution witnesses who accepted a plea bargains in exchange for their testimony, and they testified they were street sellers of marijuana supplied by Boland. Boland appealed. On April 14, 2015 the Court of Appeals for Newfoundland and Labrador quashed Boland's conviction and ordered his acquittal on the basis his conviction was unreasonable because of the trial judge's palpable and overriding errors in his assessment of the credibility and reliability of the two principal Crown witnesses."

Conviction Caused By:

Unrelable testimony of two witnesses who testified in exchange for favorable plea bargains.

Innocence Proved By:

"On April 14, 2015 the Court of Appeals for Newfoundland and Labrador quashed Boland's conviction and ordered his acquittal on the basis his conviction was unreasonable because of the trial judge's palpable and overriding errors in his assessment of the credibility and reliability of the two principal Crown witnesses."

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"R. v. Boland, 2015 NLCA 20 (NL Ct. of Appeal, 4-14-2015) (Quashing conviction and ordering acquittal)"

Information Location 1:

http://records.court.nl.ca/public/supremecourt/decisiondownload/?decision-id=821&mode=stream

Information Source 2:

"Drug Conviction Overturned for Grand Bank Man, www.vocm.com (St. John's, NL), April 16 2015"

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http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&id=54060&latest=1

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