Mark James Phillips

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Charge:	Assault (Including Battery)
Sentence:	3-1/2 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	2006
Year Convicted:	2006
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Middlesbrough
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Mark James Phillips was wrongly convicted in September 2006 of assault for a March 2006 incident when a woman awoke to find him in her bed in Middlesbrough, England. Phillips claimed he had suffered from sleepwalking for years, but the jury found him guilty. He was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison. Phillips conviction quashed in November 2008 as unsafe because new scientific evidence shows the sleep walking syndrome he suffered from for years could have resulted in him unknowingly finding himself in a woman's bed."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous expert testimony that Phillips could not have been sleepwalking when he wound up in a woman's bed.
Innocence Proved By:	Phillips conviction quashed in November 2008 as unsafe because new scientific evidence shows the sleep walking syndrome he suffered from for years could have resulted in him unknowingly finding himself in a woman's bed.
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Age When Imprisoned:	42
Age When Released:	44
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Man jailed over ‘sleepwalk’ sex assault wins appeal, Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), November 6, 2008"
Information Location 1:	http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2008/11/06/man-jailed-over-sleepwalk-sex-assault-wins-appeal-84229-22196216/
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Mark James Phillips

Charge:

Assault (Including Battery)

Sentence:

3-1/2 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

2006

Year Convicted:

2006

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Middlesbrough

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous expert testimony that Phillips could not have been sleepwalking when he wound up in a woman's bed.

Innocence Proved By:

Phillips conviction quashed in November 2008 as unsafe because new scientific evidence shows the sleep walking syndrome he suffered from for years could have resulted in him unknowingly finding himself in a woman's bed.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

42

Age When Released:

44

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Man jailed over ‘sleepwalk’ sex assault wins appeal, Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), November 6, 2008"

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http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2008/11/06/man-jailed-over-sleepwalk-sex-assault-wins-appeal-84229-22196216/

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