Lionel Skog

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Charge:	Indecent Assault & Grevious Bodily Harm
Sentence:	6 years
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
Year Crime:	2007
Year Convicted:	2007
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	South Africa
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in December 2007 of intent to do grievous bodily harm and indecent assault for allegedly forcing an employee to have oral sex with him on May 19, 2007. Lionel Skog was sentenced to three years in prison on each count. On August 29, 2008 the Cape High Court overturned his convictions, based on insufficient evidence to reject Skog's alibi that he was watching rugby and drinking with friends in town, including two police officers at the time of the alleged assault."
Conviction Caused By:	Eyewitness testimony of the alleged victim.
Innocence Proved By:	"On August 29, 2008 the Cape High Court overturned his convictions, based on insufficient evidence to reject Skog's alibi that he was watching rugby and drinking with friends in town, including two police officers at the time of the alleged assault."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Farmer's conviction for assault overturned, The Cape Times (Cape Horn, SA), September 1, 2008, p. 6"
Information Location 1:	http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080901053944489C984791
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Lionel Skog

Charge:

Indecent Assault & Grevious Bodily Harm

Sentence:

6 years

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

2007

Year Convicted:

2007

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

South Africa

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness testimony of the alleged victim.

Innocence Proved By:

"On August 29, 2008 the Cape High Court overturned his convictions, based on insufficient evidence to reject Skog's alibi that he was watching rugby and drinking with friends in town, including two police officers at the time of the alleged assault."

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Farmer's conviction for assault overturned, The Cape Times (Cape Horn, SA), September 1, 2008, p. 6"

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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080901053944489C984791

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