Norman Fox

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Charge:	Rape
Sentence:	6 years
Years Imprisoned:	6
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1976
Year Cleared:	1984
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Canada
County or Region of Crime:	British Columbia
City of Crime:
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."
Defendant Aided By:
Compensation Awarded:	"CAN$275,000"
Was Perpetrator Identified?
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Age When Released:
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	AIDWYC website - Wrongful convictions webpage
Information Location 1:	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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Norman Fox

Charge:

Rape

Sentence:

6 years

Years Imprisoned:

6

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1976

Year Cleared:

1984

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Canada

County or Region of Crime:

British Columbia

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Mistaken eyewitness identification by the victim.

Innocence Proved By:

"Granted pardon in 1984, two years after he had completed his sentence."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"CAN$275,000"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

AIDWYC website - Wrongful convictions webpage

Information Location 1:

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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