D. M. C.

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Charge:	Pornography (including making and distributing)
Sentence:	18 months
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
Year Crime:	2005
Year Convicted:	2008
Year Cleared:	2009
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"D. M. C. was wrongly convicted in November 2008 in Reading Crown Court of ten counts of child pornography and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Mr. C. was convicted based on images sent through an email address which was traced – through AOL – to Mr. C. home address. Neither any emails to or from the email address nor any child pornography images wree found on Mr. C.'s computer when his home was searched in September 2005. Mr. C. was charged and arrested in May 2007. He had a boarder at the time the images were emailed, and his defense was the boarder must have sent them from his computer. In May 2009 a five-judge panel of England's Court of Appeals overturned Mr. C.'s conviction on the basis that the judge did not properly instruct the jury about the memorandum from AOL concerning the email address."
Conviction Caused By:	Misleading jury instruction about an AOL memorandum.
Innocence Proved By:	In May 2009 a five-judge panel of England's Court of Appeals overturned Carter's conviction.
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Age When Imprisoned:	40
Age When Released:	41
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Porn conviction appeal upheld, Bracknell Forest Standard, June 2, 2009"
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D. M. C.

Charge:

Pornography (including making and distributing)

Sentence:

18 months

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

2005

Year Convicted:

2008

Year Cleared:

2009

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Misleading jury instruction about an AOL memorandum.

Innocence Proved By:

In May 2009 a five-judge panel of England's Court of Appeals overturned Carter's conviction.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

40

Age When Released:

41

Sex:

Male

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Information Source 1:

"Porn conviction appeal upheld, Bracknell Forest Standard, June 2, 2009"

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http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/news/s/2051758_porn_conviction_appeal_upheld

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