Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Public posters |
Sentence: |
250 fine |
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Year Crime: |
2003 |
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Year Cleared: |
2005 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Ireland |
County or Region of Crime: |
Cork |
City of Crime: |
Glanmire |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
Fintan Lane |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"Acquitted on appeal by the Cork Circuit Court on March 23, 2005 on the basis the prosecution didn't present sufficient evidence linking Fintan Lane to the commission of the offence of illegally putting up posters that were physically installed by other people." |
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Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"Cork Circuit Court overturns convictions against Fintan Lane for anti-war postering, By Déardaoin Meitheamh (writer), Indymedia Ireland, March 23, 2005" |
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http://www.indymedia.ie/article/70405?author_name=anti-war&condense_comments=true&userlanguage=ga&save_prefs=true |
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