Arthur Lynn Cook

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Charge:	Attempted Murder Second-Degree
Sentence:	8 years
Years Imprisoned:	1.8
Year Crime:	1993
Year Convicted:	1994
Year Cleared:	1995
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Virginia
County or Region of Crime:	Rockingham
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Arthur Lynn Cook was wrongly convicted of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly trying to run over a state trooper on August 10, 1993. He was sentenced to eight years in prison. In June 1995 Virginia's Court of Appeals vacated Cook's conviction and ordered the charges dismissed because the "Defendant was ... convicted for conduct which constituted no crime at the time of the offense.""
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Innocence Proved By:	"In June 1995 Virginia's Court of Appeals vacated Cook's conviction and ordered the charges dismissed because the "Defendant was ... convicted for conduct which constituted no crime at the time of the offense.""
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Information Source 1:	"Conviction overturned in Attempt To Run Over Trooper, By Derek Barr (staff), Daily News Record (Harrisonburg, Virginia), June 28, 1995, p. 9"
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Arthur Lynn Cook

Charge:

Attempted Murder Second-Degree

Sentence:

8 years

Years Imprisoned:

1.8

Year Crime:

1993

Year Convicted:

1994

Year Cleared:

1995

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Virginia

County or Region of Crime:

Rockingham

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

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"In June 1995 Virginia's Court of Appeals vacated Cook's conviction and ordered the charges dismissed because the "Defendant was ... convicted for conduct which constituted no crime at the time of the offense.""

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Male

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"Conviction overturned in Attempt To Run Over Trooper, By Derek Barr (staff), Daily News Record (Harrisonburg, Virginia), June 28, 1995, p. 9"

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