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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Rape - conspiracy to commit |
Sentence: |
Indeterminate Sentence |
Years Imprisoned: |
0.75 |
Year Crime: |
2006 |
Year Convicted: |
2007 |
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 Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Robert Mayers was a co-defendant of Alan Hedgecock and Charles James Dyer. All three men were convicted in February 2007 of conspiracy to commit rape of two underage girls they chatted with online. The men never did anything other than chat with the girls online. The three men were sentenced to indeterminate terms of imprisonment. On November 26, 2007 the Criminal Court of Appeal for England and Wales quashed the conspiracy convictions of all three men on the grounds that they did nothing to further a conspiracy -- they simply chatted online." |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
42 |
Age When Released: |
43 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"Rape plot conviction quashed, Staff writers, Salisbury Journal, November 27, 2007" |
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http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/newforest/newforestnews/display.var.1862358.0.rape_plot_conviction_quashed.php |
Information Source 2: |
"Three cleared of chatroom rape plot, Press Association, Guardian (London UK), November 26, 2007" |
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"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7104502,00.html" |
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