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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Rape |
Sentence: |
2 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
0.167 |
Year Crime: |
2014 |
Year Convicted: |
2014 |
Year Cleared: |
2014 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Sweden |
County or Region of Crime: |
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City of Crime: |
Sundsvall |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Mikael Halvarsson was wrongly convicted in Sweden of raping a woman on April 2, 2014 who was sleeping in the same bed he was. Halvarsson was sentenced to two years in prison. " |
Conviction Caused By: |
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Innocence Proved By: |
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Defendant Aided By: |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
26 |
Age When Released: |
26 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"Swedish Man Acquitted of Rape Due to 'Sexomnia', By Gillian Mohney (Staff writer), ABC News, September 20, 2014" |
Information Location 1: |
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/swedish-man-acquitted-rape-due-sexomnia/story?id=25629309 |
Information Source 2: |
"Swedish court accepts 'sexsomnia' defence and acquits man of rape, By Agence France-Presse in Stockholm, The Guardian (London), September 18, 2014" |
Information Location 2: |
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/18/sweden-court-sexsomnia-acquit-man-rape |
Information Source 3: |
"Swedish man's 'sexsomnia' defense gets rape conviction overturned, By Joel Landau (staff writer), New York Daily News, September 22, 2014" |
Information Location 3: |
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/swedish-man-pleads-sexsomnia-rape-conviction-overturned-article-1.1948371 |
Information Source 4: |
"Are men getting away with rape by pretending they were asleep? Rising number of attackers are trying extraordinary defence that they had 'sexsomnia', By Staff writers, Daily Mail (London), December 28, 2012" |
Information Location 4: |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254360/Sexsomnia-Rising-number-attackers-trying-extraordinary-defence.html |
Information Source 5: |
"Rape conviction overturned because defendant suffered from sexsomnia, By Martha Neil (Staff writer), ABA Journal, September 22, 2014" |
Information Location 5: |
http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/article/rape_conviction_overturned_because_defendant_suffered_from_sexsomnia/ |
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