Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Rape |
Sentence: |
6 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
6 |
Year Crime: |
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Year Convicted: |
1976 |
Year Cleared: |
1984 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Canada |
County or Region of Crime: |
British Columbia |
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Result: |
Pardoned |
Summary of Case: |
"Norman Fox was wrongly convicted of rape, buggery and assault. Fox was released on parole in 1982 after six years of imprisonment. Two years later, evidence indicated he had been the victim of mistaken identification by the victim, and he was granted a pardon in 1984. Norman Fox was subsequently awarded compensation of $275,000 in 1984 for six years of wrongful imprisonment." |
Conviction Caused By: |
Mistaken eyewitness identification by the victim. |
Innocence Proved By: |
"Granted pardon in 1984, two years after he had completed his sentence." |
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Compensation Awarded: |
"CAN$275,000" |
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Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
AIDWYC website - Wrongful convictions webpage |
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http://www.aidwyc.org/ |
Information Source 2: |
"$1.1 Million Award For False Conviction, Janice Tibbetts, The Ottawa Citizen, December 19, 2001" |
Information Location 2: |
http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0112/oc011219.htm |
Information Source 3: |
"Eight years' jail for innocent man, By Lena Sin, The Province (Vancouver BC), February 3, 2008" |
Information Location 3: |
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=f8ea99e5-c509-4593-865e-eecb8ec05087&p=2 |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org