Sam Smoothy

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Charge:	Assault (Including Battery)
Sentence:	NZL$400
Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:	2008
Year Convicted:	2008
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Zealand
County or Region of Crime:
City of Crime:	Wanaka
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in the Queenstown District Court in November 2008 of assaulting a patron in a Wanaka, New Zealand bar in October 2008. Sam Smoothy was a member of New Zealand's national ski team, and he was sentenced to pay a fine of NZL$400. On December 17, 2008 the High Court in Christchurch quashed Smoothy's conviction. In its decision the High Court stated, "The [trial] court should have been satisfied that the direct and indirect consequences of a conviction would be out of all proportion to the gravity of the offence,""
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Innocence Proved By:	"On December 17, 2008 the High Court in Christchurch quashed Smoothy's conviction on the basis of insufficient evidence."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Skier's conviction quashed, by Matthew Haggart (staff), Otaga Daily Times (Dunedin, NZL), January 6, 2009"
Information Location 1:	http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/wanaka/38335/skier039s-conviction-quashed
Information Source 2:	"Top Wanaka skier fights assault conviction, by Matthew Haggart (staff), Otaga Daily Times (Dunedin, NZL), November 28, 2008"
Information Location 2:	http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/wanaka/33741/top-wanaka-skier-fights-assault-conviction
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Sam Smoothy

Charge:

Assault (Including Battery)

Sentence:

NZL$400

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2008

Year Convicted:

2008

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Zealand

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Wanaka

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On December 17, 2008 the High Court in Christchurch quashed Smoothy's conviction on the basis of insufficient evidence."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Skier's conviction quashed, by Matthew Haggart (staff), Otaga Daily Times (Dunedin, NZL), January 6, 2009"

Information Location 1:

http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/wanaka/38335/skier039s-conviction-quashed

Information Source 2:

"Top Wanaka skier fights assault conviction, by Matthew Haggart (staff), Otaga Daily Times (Dunedin, NZL), November 28, 2008"

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http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/wanaka/33741/top-wanaka-skier-fights-assault-conviction

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