Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Obstructing access to private property |
Sentence: |
"AUS$2,000 fine" |
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Year Crime: |
2011 |
Year Convicted: |
2011 |
Year Cleared: |
2013 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Australia |
County or Region of Crime: |
Queensland |
City of Crime: |
Tara |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Peter Drew Hutton was wrongly convicted in December 2011 of obstruction for blocking a Queensland Gas Company contractor from entering a property near Tara, Queensland, Australia on March 29, 2011. Hutton was fined AUS$2,000. Hutton appealed, arguing the warning given by a QGC construction manager did not provide sufficient notice under the law. In December 2012 Judge Fleur Kingham in the District Court in Brisbanein quashed Hutton's conviction, and he issued his written ruling in January 2013." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
" In December 2012 Judge Fleur Kingham in the District Court in Brisbanein quashed Hutton's conviction, and he issued his written ruling in January 2013." |
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Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"Gas field demonstrator's conviction is quashed, By Paddy Manning (staff), Brisbane Times (Brisbane, Queensland, AUS), December 24, 2012" |
Information Location 1: |
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/gas-field-demonstrators-conviction-is-quashed-20121223-2bthn.html |
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"Hutton conviction quashed. By Christine Flatley, (staff), Brisbane Times (Brisbane, Queensland, AUS), January 22, 2013" |
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/hutton-conviction-quashed-20130122-2d50f.html |
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