Elsa Raiskio

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Charge:	Assault (Including Battery)
Sentence:	Probation
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Year Crime:	2010
Year Convicted:	2011
Year Cleared:	2011
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Australia
County or Region of Crime:	Queensland
City of Crime:	Rockhampton
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Elsa Raiskio was wrongly convicted in February 2011 of assaulting a mentally impaired patient on February 15, 2010 at the residential care facility where she worked in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Raiskio's unsuccessful defense was that she did her job by protecting a violent patient by pulling him away from a glass pane so he couldn't break it and injure himself. She was sentenced to probation. She appealed on the basis that she had protected the patient and hadn't committed a crime under Section 25 of Queensland's Criminal Act. Her conviction was overturned on November 7, 2011. The appeals court ruled that penal code "Section 25 provides a complete defence to the appellant. It exculpates the appellant from criminal penalty for what she did on this occasion." The Court also awarded her the costs of her defense -- $5,363 -- to be paid by the Crown."
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Innocence Proved By:	"The appeals court overturned her conviction on November 7, 2011."
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Assault conviction overturned, By Kerri-Anne Mesner, The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton), November 8, 2011"
Information Location 1:	http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2011/11/08/assault-conviction-overturned/
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Elsa Raiskio

Charge:

Assault (Including Battery)

Sentence:

Probation

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2010

Year Convicted:

2011

Year Cleared:

2011

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Australia

County or Region of Crime:

Queensland

City of Crime:

Rockhampton

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"The appeals court overturned her conviction on November 7, 2011."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Assault conviction overturned, By Kerri-Anne Mesner, The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton), November 8, 2011"

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http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2011/11/08/assault-conviction-overturned/

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