Richard Norris

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Charge:	Sexual Assault (includes aggravated)
Sentence:	23 months
Years Imprisoned:	0.67
Year Crime:	1979
Year Convicted:	1980
Year Cleared:	1991
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Canada
County or Region of Crime:	Ontario
City of Crime:	Fergus
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in 1980 of sexual assault in Fergus, Ontario based on the erroneous identification by the victim. The woman, who was Richard Norris' neighbor, was actually assaulted by a friend of Norris. Norris was sentenced to 23 months in prison and he was released after 8 months, 10 days of imprisonment. The acquaintance admitted he had committed the crime, and Norris was acquitted in 1991 by the Ontario Court of Appeals. Norris was awarded compensation of $507,000 in 1993."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous identification by the victim.
Innocence Proved By:	Norris was acquitted in 1991 by the Ontario Court of Appeals.
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Compensation Awarded:	"CAN$507,000"
Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	AIDWYC website - Wrongful convictions webpage
Information Location 1:	http://www.aidwyc.org/
Information Source 2:	"$1.1 Million Award For False Conviction, Janice Tibbetts, The Ottawa Citizen, 12-19-2001"
Information Location 2:	http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0112/oc011219.htm
Information Source 3:	"Compensation received by persons wrongly convicted in Canada, AIDWYC Journal, Spring 2009, p. 12"
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Richard Norris

Charge:

Sexual Assault (includes aggravated)

Sentence:

23 months

Years Imprisoned:

0.67

Year Crime:

1979

Year Convicted:

1980

Year Cleared:

1991

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Canada

County or Region of Crime:

Ontario

City of Crime:

Fergus

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous identification by the victim.

Innocence Proved By:

Norris was acquitted in 1991 by the Ontario Court of Appeals.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"CAN$507,000"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

AIDWYC website - Wrongful convictions webpage

Information Location 1:

http://www.aidwyc.org/

Information Source 2:

"$1.1 Million Award For False Conviction, Janice Tibbetts, The Ottawa Citizen, 12-19-2001"

Information Location 2:

http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0112/oc011219.htm

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"Compensation received by persons wrongly convicted in Canada, AIDWYC Journal, Spring 2009, p. 12"

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