Patience Paye

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Charge:	Intoxicated in public
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Year Crime:	2013
Year Convicted:	2013
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Iowa
County or Region of Crime:	Black Hawk
City of Crime:	Waterloo
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Patience Paye was wrongly convicted in 2013 of public intoxication in Waterloo, Iowa. Paye was arrested and charged with public intoxication after the police responded to a domestic violence call she made just before midnight on June 22, 2013, and she went onto the front porch of her house to talk with them becasue she didn't want to disturb her children in the house. The officers who responded received her permission to perform a breathalyzer test that showed her alcohol level was .267. Paye's defense was the front porch of her house was private property, so she was illegally arrested for public intoxication. On June 12, 2015 the Iowa Supreme Court reversed Patience Paye's conviction on the basis her front porch was not a public place, so she was erroneously convicted of being intoxicated in public. The Court remanded to the trial court and ordered dismissal of the charge."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On June 12, 2015 the Iowa Supreme Court reversed Patience Paye's conviction on the basis her front porch was not a public place, so she was erroneously convicted of being intoxicated in public. The Court remanded to the trial court and ordered dismissal of the charge."
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Sex:	Female
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Information Source 1:	"State of Iowa vs. Patience Paye, No. 14–0183 (Iowa Supreme Court, June 12, 2015) (Reversed conviction and ordered dismissal of charges)"
Information Location 1:	http://www.iowacourts.gov/About_the_Courts/Supreme_Court/Supreme_Court_Opinions/Recent_Opinions/20150612/14-0183.pdf
Information Source 2:	"Court: Iowa residents have right to be drunk on front porch, By David Pitt (Associated Press), Times-Union (Albany, New York), June 15, 2015"
Information Location 2:	http://www.timesunion.com/news/crime/article/Iowa-Supreme-Court-affirms-right-to-be-drunk-on-6323527.php
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Patience Paye

Charge:

Intoxicated in public

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2013

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Iowa

County or Region of Crime:

Black Hawk

City of Crime:

Waterloo

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On June 12, 2015 the Iowa Supreme Court reversed Patience Paye's conviction on the basis her front porch was not a public place, so she was erroneously convicted of being intoxicated in public. The Court remanded to the trial court and ordered dismissal of the charge."

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Female

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Information Source 1:

"State of Iowa vs. Patience Paye, No. 14–0183 (Iowa Supreme Court, June 12, 2015) (Reversed conviction and ordered dismissal of charges)"

Information Location 1:

http://www.iowacourts.gov/About_the_Courts/Supreme_Court/Supreme_Court_Opinions/Recent_Opinions/20150612/14-0183.pdf

Information Source 2:

"Court: Iowa residents have right to be drunk on front porch, By David Pitt (Associated Press), Times-Union (Albany, New York), June 15, 2015"

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http://www.timesunion.com/news/crime/article/Iowa-Supreme-Court-affirms-right-to-be-drunk-on-6323527.php

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