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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Environmental Disaster (Culpable) |
Sentence: |
18 years |
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Year Crime: |
1966 |
Year Convicted: |
2013 |
Year Cleared: |
2014 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Italy |
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City of Crime: |
Turin |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
Stephan Schmidheiny |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"In November 2014 Italy's Court of Cassation (Italy’s supreme court) granted prosecutor general Francesco Iaciovello’s application for quashing the 2013 convictions of Stephan Schmidheiny and his 18-year sentence, on the basis his prosecution was barred by the statute of limitations, since the alleged violations dated from 1966." |
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Sex: |
Male |
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White |
Information Source 1: |
"Eternit Conviction Quashed, By Online newdesk Rome, Corriere Della Sera (English), November 201, 2014" |
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http://www.corriere.it/english/14_novembre_20/eternit-conviction-quashed-f2420e10-70b5-11e4-8a20-485d75d3144d.shtml |
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"Italy in fury as tycoon’s asbestos deaths conviction quashed, By AFP-JIJI, The Japan Times, November 21, 2014" |
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/21/world/crime-legal-world/italy-in-fury-as-tycoons-asbestos-deaths-conviction-quashed/#.VHAVun-vGjc |
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