Eric Barry Stewart

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Charge:	"Fraud (passing bad checks, documents, casino, bankrupcy, etc.)"
Sentence:	3 years
Years Imprisoned:	1.5
Year Crime:	2005
Year Convicted:	2007
Year Cleared:	2009
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Zealand
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Eric Barry Stewart was wrongly convicted in May 2007 of 34 counts of using a document dishonestly to obtain a pecuniary advantage. Stewart's alleged fraud was related to obtaining weekly compensation that had been stopped in August 2005. Eric Stewart was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. New Zealand's Court of Appeal upheld Stewart's conviction but reduced his sentence to 18 months, which was about the time he had been imprisoned to that point. On May 28, 2009 New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled, "The appellant has established that his trial was unfair and that a substantial miscarriage of justice resulted. The convictions ... must therefore be set aside.""
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Innocence Proved By:	"On May 28, 2009 NZL's Supreme Court set-aside Stewart's convictions."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Fraud convictions overturned, By Claire Allison, The Timaru Herald, May 29, 2009"
Information Location 1:	http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/2454998/Fraud-convictions-overturned
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Eric Barry Stewart

Charge:

"Fraud (passing bad checks, documents, casino, bankrupcy, etc.)"

Sentence:

3 years

Years Imprisoned:

1.5

Year Crime:

2005

Year Convicted:

2007

Year Cleared:

2009

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Zealand

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On May 28, 2009 NZL's Supreme Court set-aside Stewart's convictions."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Fraud convictions overturned, By Claire Allison, The Timaru Herald, May 29, 2009"

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/2454998/Fraud-convictions-overturned

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