Satya Nand

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Charge:	Assault (Including Battery)
Sentence:	Suspended sentence and $100 fine
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Year Crime:	2002
Year Convicted:	2007
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Fiji
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Satya Nand was wrongly convicted of an alleged May 2002 assault. Satya Nand is a policeman, and the alleged victim claimed that Nand hit him several times with a baseball bat when he was being questioned at Fiji's Nasese Police Station as a suspect in a computer theft. Nand was given a suspended sentence and fined $100. Nand's conviction was quashed on appeal based on the fact that numerous witnesses in the police station said they saw nothing, and he said nothing to the judge when he was later granted bail. the appeals court also noted that the trial court had shifted the burden of proof to Nand."
Conviction Caused By:	False claim of being beaten by the alleged victim.
Innocence Proved By:	Conviction quashed by the appeals court.
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Officer's assault conviction quashed, Fiji Daily Post, June 30, 2008"
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Satya Nand

Charge:

Assault (Including Battery)

Sentence:

Suspended sentence and $100 fine

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2002

Year Convicted:

2007

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Fiji

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False claim of being beaten by the alleged victim.

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction quashed by the appeals court.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

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"Officer's assault conviction quashed, Fiji Daily Post, June 30, 2008"

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http://www.fijidailypost.com/news.php?section=1&fijidailynews=17160

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