Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Sexual Assault (includes aggravated) |
Sentence: |
86 days of sex offender treatment and three years' supervision as well as pay the woman £75 compensation |
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Year Crime: |
2006 |
Year Convicted: |
2006 |
Year Cleared: |
2007 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
United Kingdom |
County or Region of Crime: |
England |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Andrew David Lee was wrongly convicted in January 2007 of sexually touching a 21-year-old woman's breasts on the street in September 2006. On appeal the Court ruled in 2007 the 40-year-old Lee did not match the description the woman gave to the police of the perpetrator, and acquitted him of the charge." |
Conviction Caused By: |
Erroneous eyewitness testimony by the victim. |
Innocence Proved By: |
"On appeal the Court ruled in 2007 the 40-year-old Lee did not match the description the woman gave to the police of the perpetrator, and acquitted him of the charge." |
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Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"Sex crime quashed, The Press (UK), May 15, 2007" |
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http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1398023.mostviewed.sex_crime_quashed.php |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org