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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Administrative Regulation |
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Exonerated After Conviction But Prior to Sentencing |
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2006 |
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2006 |
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United Kingdom |
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Judicially Exonerated |
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"Wrongly convicted in March 2006 of 19 offences of contravening the United Kingdom's Cattle Identification and Cattle Database Regulations. Mark Payne's convictions were overturned when DEFRA acknowledged that the EU law used by DEFRA had been repealed in 2000, and that more up-to-date legislation that was supposed to replace it had not been adopted by the UK." |
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"Defra admits to using 'wrong' law, Farmers Weekly, July 14, 2006" |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org