Robert Watcyn Jones

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Charge:	Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs
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Year Crime:	2013
Year Convicted:	2014
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Zealand
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City of Crime:	Castlepoint
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Robert Watcyn Jones was wrongly convicted in November 2014 of drunk driving in August 2013 in Castlepoint, New Zealand. Jones crashed his car and he was airlifted to a Wellington hospital with a broken leg. Jones, a 60-year-old dentist in Masterton, was charged with drunk driving based on the the test of his blood that found a blood alcohol content of 88 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit in New Zealand at the time was 80 milligrams per 100 millitres of blood. Jones' presented two defenses during his trial: 1) that prior to the crash he had been at a party where he was mainly drinking Coca-Cola, and he at most had one or maybe two alcoholic drinks, so his drinks had to have been spiked with extra alcohol; 2) his lawyer retained an doctor whose test of his blood sample showed a reading of only 73 milligrams, 7 below the limit for being legally intoxicated. After his conviction in the Masterton District Court, Jones appealed. On November 19, 2015 the High Court at Wellington overturned Jones' conviction on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence to prove his giult beyond a reasonable doubt."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On November 19, 2015 the High Court at Wellington overturned Jones' conviction on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence to prove his giult beyond a reasonable doubt."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Dentist wins legal battle to overturn conviction, By Alisa Yong, Wairarapa Times-Age, November 23, 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11549689
Information Source 2:	"Drink-driving conviction quashed after blood tests yield three different results, By Talia Shadwell, The Dominion Post (Wellington NZL), December 1, 2015"
Information Location 2:	http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/74565391/drinkdriving-conviction-quashed-after-blood-tests-yield-three-different-results
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Robert Watcyn Jones

Charge:

Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Zealand

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Castlepoint

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On November 19, 2015 the High Court at Wellington overturned Jones' conviction on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence to prove his giult beyond a reasonable doubt."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Dentist wins legal battle to overturn conviction, By Alisa Yong, Wairarapa Times-Age, November 23, 2015"

Information Location 1:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11549689

Information Source 2:

"Drink-driving conviction quashed after blood tests yield three different results, By Talia Shadwell, The Dominion Post (Wellington NZL), December 1, 2015"

Information Location 2:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/74565391/drinkdriving-conviction-quashed-after-blood-tests-yield-three-different-results

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