Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Money Laundering |
Sentence: |
1 year suspended for 2 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
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Year Crime: |
2009 |
Year Convicted: |
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Year Cleared: |
2014 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Isle of Man |
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City of Crime: |
Douglas |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Attorney Jenny Dee Holt was wrongly convicted on January 25, 2011 in the Isle of Man for one count of money laundering and two counts of falsifying documents related to £400,000 received by her law firm -- Moroneys -- at the end of August 2009 as a client's payment for her legal firms represention in his criminal case. After Holt's conviction by a 7-person jury, she was sentenced on February 25, 2011 to a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years of non-criminal conduct. " |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
30 |
Age When Released: |
30 |
Sex: |
Female |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
Holt v Her Majestys Attorney General on behalf of the Queen (Isle of Man) [2014] UKPC 4 (19 February 2014) |
Information Location 1: |
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/2014/4.html |
Information Source 2: |
"Lawyer Jenny Holt's laundering conviction overturned, By Staff Writers, BBC News, February 19, 2014" |
Information Location 2: |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-26258714 |
Information Source 3: |
"Trevor Baines sentenced after trust theft, By Staff Writers, BBC News, February 25, 2011" |
Information Location 3: |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-12581477 |
Information Source 4: |
"Manx advocate found guilty of money laundering, By Staff Writers, BBC News, January 25, 2011" |
Information Location 4: |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-12278929 |
Information Source 5: |
"Manx advocate denies money laundering charges, By Staff Writers, BBC News, January 20, 2011" |
Information Location 5: |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-12239774 |
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