Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Disorderly Conduct |
Sentence: |
$50 fine & court costs |
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Year Crime: |
2013 |
Year Convicted: |
2014 |
Year Cleared: |
2015 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Pennsylvania |
County or Region of Crime: |
Bucks |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Gary Alan Mauz was wrongly convicted on June 20, 2014 of misdemeanor disorderly conduct for calling his neighbor a "whore" on April 24, 2013 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Mauz was fined $50 and ordered to pay court costs. Mauz appealed. On September 9, 2015 the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled on Mauz' appeal that the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence at trial to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed disorderly conduct by his derogatory comments to his neighbor." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"On September 9, 2015 the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled on Mauz' appeal that the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence at trial to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed disorderly conduct by his derogatory comments to his neighbor." |
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Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Gary Alan Mauz, 122 A.3d 1039, 2015 PA Super 191 (Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 9-9-2015) (Reversing conviction on basis of insufficent evidence of guilt.)" |
Information Location 1: |
http://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2015/2068-eda-2014.html |
Information Source 2: |
"Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Gary Alan Mauz, No. 2068 EDA 2014 (Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 6-23-2014) (Reversing conviction on basis of insufficent evidence of guilt.)" |
Information Location 2: |
http://cases.justia.com/pennsylvania/superior-court/2015-2068-eda-2014.pdf?ts=1435094551 |
Information Source 3: |
"Pennsylvania judge vacates disorderly conduct conviction of man who called neighbor a 'whore', By Joel Landau (Staff writer), New York Daily News, June 24, 2015" |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/court-vacates-fine-man-called-neighbor-whore-article-1.2269939 |
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