Per Kristian Liland

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	14
Year Crime:	1969
Year Convicted:	1970
Year Cleared:	1994
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Norway
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Per Kristian Liland was wrongly convicted of murdering two friends. The men's bodies were found on December 24, 1969 in the Norwegian town Fredrikstad. Per Kristian Liland was convicted in 1970 of committing both murders, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 10 years of post-release supervision. Liland was released from prison in 1984, and was then supervised for 10 years. After he was released from serving his sentence Liland was eoxnerated on October 26, 1994 when the prosecution agreed to dismiss the charges based on new evidence unconvered by journalist and private investigator Tore Sandberg. Per Liland's case is a notorious Norwegian miscarriage of justice that is known as The Liland Affair. Sandberg was later instrumental in the exoneration of Fritz Moen for two murders committed in 1976 and 1977. Liland was awarded a total of 13.74 million Norwegian Kroners as compensation. (In January 2000 the exchange rate was 0.125 Kroners to US$, so at that time the award equaled about $1.7 million."
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Innocence Proved By:	Liland was acquitted in 1994 based on new evidence unconvered by journalist and private investigator Tore Sandberg.
Defendant Aided By:	Norwegian journalist and private investigator Tore Sandberg.
Compensation Awarded:	13.7 mil Norwegian Kroners
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Liland Affair, Wikipedia"
Information Location 1:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liland_Affair
Information Source 2:	"Liland exonerated of murder charges, Vaart Land, Aftenposten (Oslo), October 27, 2008"
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Per Kristian Liland

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

14

Year Crime:

1969

Year Convicted:

1970

Year Cleared:

1994

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Norway

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Liland was acquitted in 1994 based on new evidence unconvered by journalist and private investigator Tore Sandberg.

Defendant Aided By:

Norwegian journalist and private investigator Tore Sandberg.

Compensation Awarded:

13.7 mil Norwegian Kroners

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Liland Affair, Wikipedia"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liland_Affair

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"Liland exonerated of murder charges, Vaart Land, Aftenposten (Oslo), October 27, 2008"

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