Stuart McLachlan

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Charge:	Assault (Including Battery)
Sentence:	$98 reparation and medical costs
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Year Convicted:	2014
Year Cleared:	2014
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Zealand
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City of Crime:	Hastings
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Stuart McLachlan was wrongly convicted in January 2014 of assaulting a shopkeeper in Hastings, New Zealand over a Lotto ticket. The prosecution's case was based on the allegation that on March 9, 2013 McLachlan went into a Havelock North Lotto shop and tried to buy a Lotto ticket, but he was $1.20 short. The prosecution alleged that he refused to give the ticket back and when the shopkeeper tried to stop him from leaving the store there was a scuffle during which McLachlan allegedly shoved the ticket down the front of the woman's shirt. McLachlan was convicted after a bench trial and sentenced to pay $98 reparations and the shopkeepers medical expenses. McLachlan appealed. On October 22, 2014 Justice Mary Peters of the High Court at Napier quashed McLachlan's conviction and discharged him without a retrial."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On October 22, 2014 Justice Mary Peters of the High Court at Napier quashed McLachlan's conviction and discharged him without a retrial."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Council candidate's lotto assault conviction quashed, By Marty Sharpe (staff writer), The Dominion Post, October 23, 2014"
Information Location 1:	http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10650611/Council-candidates-lotto-assault-conviction-quashed
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Stuart McLachlan

Charge:

Assault (Including Battery)

Sentence:

$98 reparation and medical costs

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2014

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Zealand

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Hastings

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On October 22, 2014 Justice Mary Peters of the High Court at Napier quashed McLachlan's conviction and discharged him without a retrial."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Council candidate's lotto assault conviction quashed, By Marty Sharpe (staff writer), The Dominion Post, October 23, 2014"

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10650611/Council-candidates-lotto-assault-conviction-quashed

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