Justin Patrick Crotty

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Charge:	Assault (Misdemeanor)
Sentence:	18 months probation
Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:	2014
Year Convicted:	2015
Year Cleared:	2016
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Australia
County or Region of Crime:	New South Wales
City of Crime:	Sydney
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Justin Patrick Crotty was wrongly convicted in May 2015 of assaulting his wife Camilla on August 9, 2014 at their apartment in Sydney, Australia. The charges were filed after Camilla Crotty called her friend, Sally Obermeder who she had a late lunch with that day, at about 9:30 pm and told her that her husband was angry and had hit her when she arrived home at 8:30, because he had to leave the next morning at 6 am for a business trip to South Korea. During Cotty's bench trial his wife gave conflicting accounts about what happened, exaggerated her injuries, and she admitted she drank a quantity of alcohol before she arrived home. Obermeder, a Sydney television personality, testified about the alcohol Camilla drank at lunch and the phone call that evening. Crotty denied hitting his wife, who had no visible injuries, so his trial was "he said, she said." After his conviction in the Downing Centre Local Court, Justin Crotty was sentenced to an 18 month suspended jail sentence and fined AUS$1,000. Crotty appealed. In January 2016 New South Wales District Court Judge Garry Neilson overturned Crotty's conviction based inconsistencies in his wife's (the complainant) testimony that only made her account "plausible", and it was not sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Crotty assaulted her as she claimed."
Conviction Caused By:	Unreliable testimony by the alleged victim.
Innocence Proved By:	"In January 2016 New South Wales District Court Judge Garry Neilson overturned Crotty's conviction based inconsistencies in his wife's (the complainant) testimony that only made her account "plausible", but it was not sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Crotty assaulted her as she claimed."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Sydney’s high society assault charge overturned, judge disputes wife’s injury claim, By Brenden Hills (Court reporter), The Sunday Telegraph (Surry Hills NSW, AUS), January 23, 2016"
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Justin Patrick Crotty

Charge:

Assault (Misdemeanor)

Sentence:

18 months probation

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2014

Year Convicted:

2015

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Australia

County or Region of Crime:

New South Wales

City of Crime:

Sydney

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Unreliable testimony by the alleged victim.

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Sydney’s high society assault charge overturned, judge disputes wife’s injury claim, By Brenden Hills (Court reporter), The Sunday Telegraph (Surry Hills NSW, AUS), January 23, 2016"

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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/justin-crotty-clears-name-after-bitter-battle-judge-disputes-injury-claim/news-story/d22869d4362c1e939661855d9cb6e519

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