Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Years Imprisoned: |
4 |
Year Crime: |
1996 |
Year Convicted: |
1999 |
Year Cleared: |
2005 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Canada |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Dimitre Dimitrov was wrongly convicted in 1999 of murdering his landlord in 1996. Conviction quashed and a retrial ordered in 2003, based on unreliable expert testimony that Dimitrov's foot imprint was on the inside of a bloody boot found at the victim's home. Neither the victim's nor Dimitrov's DNA matched the blood on the boot. Dimitre Dimitrov was released on bail pending his retrial. He was acquitted after a retrial in October 2005. Dimitrov was wrongly imprisoned for 4-1/2 years.. " |
Conviction Caused By: |
Erroneous expert testimony that his shoe matched an imprint in a boot with blood found at the dead man's home. The appeals court ruled the testimony was unproven. |
Innocence Proved By: |
Acquitted after a retrial |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
41 |
Age When Released: |
45 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"Wrongly Convicted Murder Suspect Freed, CBC News, October 31, 2005" |
Information Location 1: |
http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/story/ot-dimitrov20051031.html |
Information Source 2: |
"Dimitrov Walks Almost 10 Years After Landlord's Murder, Darren McEwan, CFRA Newstalk 580AM, Ottawa, October 30, 2005 " |
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http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=1&nid=33418 |
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