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William Christopher Grant

 

Charge:

"Child Pornography (Possession, Manufacture, or Dissemination)"

Sentence:

1 yr probation

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2006

Year Cleared:

2006

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Australia

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Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

"Wrongly convicted in February 2006 of possessing three child pornographic images on his computer. Grant was sentenced to 12 months probation (bond) His conviction was quashed on appeal six months later, in August 2006. The Court ruled the images had been deleted, and there was no proof that Grant, and not someone else, had originally downloaded or copied the images to the computer."

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction quashed on appeal.

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

50

Age When Released:

50

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Win in child porn appeal, The Border Mail (Wodonga, Australia), August 21, 2006"

Information Location 1:

http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/local/384128.html

Information Source 2:

"Bond for man who had child porn on computer, The Border Mail (Wodonga, Australia), February 28, 2006"

Information Location 2:

http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/local/103193.html

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