Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Prostitution Solicitation |
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Year Crime: |
2014 |
Year Convicted: |
2015 |
Year Cleared: |
2016 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Utah |
County or Region of Crime: |
Utah |
City of Crime: |
Payson |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Rychelle Mary Hawker was wrongly convicted in 2015 of sexual solicitation in Utah County, Utah. On June 3, 2016 the Utah Court of Appeals reversed Rychelle Hawker's conviction on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence she intended to solicit a person for sex." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"On June 3, 2016 the Utah Court of Appeals reversed Hawker's conviction on the basis the prosecution failed to introduce sufficient evidence she intended to solicit a person for sex." |
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Female |
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Information Source 1: |
"State v. Hawker, 374 P.3d 1085, 2016 UT App 123 2016 (UT Ct. of Appeals, 6-3-2016) (Reversing sexual solicitation conviction based on the prosecution's failure to introduce evidence she intended to solicit a person for sex.)" |
Information Location 1: |
"https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2921325428783512020&q=State+v.+Hawker,+2016+UT+App+123,+No.+20140473-CA&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48" |
Information Source 2: |
"Utah Court of Appeals overturns womans conviction on legal analysis of a sex act, by Ben Winslow, Fox 13 (Salt Lake City, UT), June 6, 2016" |
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http://fox13now.com/2016/06/06/utah-court-of-appeals-overturns-womans-conviction-on-legal-analysis-of-a-sex-act/ |
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