Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Assault (Including Battery) |
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Year Crime: |
2007 |
Year Convicted: |
2008 |
Year Cleared: |
2008 |
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New Zealand |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Wrongly convicted of assaulting his female partner's son in January 2007, and causing minor injuries that occurred when the child fell down steps outside their home. Conviction quashed by New Zealand's Court of Appeal in November 2008 and the court ordered that there be no retrial." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
Conviction quashed by New Zealand's Court of Appeal in November 2008 and the court ordered that there be no retrial. |
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Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"Smacking conviction quashed by appeal court, New Zealand Press Assoc, November 19, 2008" |
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/4766333a12855.html |
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