Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Sexual Assault (includes aggravated) |
Sentence: |
4 months |
Years Imprisoned: |
0.25 |
Year Crime: |
2012 |
Year Convicted: |
2013 |
Year Cleared: |
2015 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Ireland |
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City of Crime: |
Dublin |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
Peter Farrelly |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"In March 2015 Ireland's High Court quashed Farrelly's conviction, ruling that the conduct of the District Court trial judge could not be viewed by any reasonable onlooker as manifesting the qualities of constitutional justice appropriate to a criminal trial when the liberty of an individual was at stake." |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
28 |
Age When Released: |
28 |
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Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"Conviction for nightclub sex assault of woman quashed, The Irish Times, March 4, 2015" |
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http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/conviction-for-nightclub-sex-assault-of-woman-quashed-1.2124761 |
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