Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Embezzelment |
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1911 |
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1913 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Seychelles |
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Judicially Exonerated |
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"Louis Edouard Lanier was wrongly convicted on July 5, 1911 in the Seychelles. On November 5, 1913 the Privy Council in London quashed Hugo Levinger's conviction and ordered his acquittal on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." |
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"On November 5, 1913 the Privy Council in London quashed Hugo Levinger's conviction and ordered his acquittal on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence of his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." |
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Male |
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White |
Information Source 1: |
Louis Edouard Lanier v The King (Seychelles) [1913] UKPC 54 (5 November 1913) |
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http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/1913/1913_54.html |
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