David Sullivan

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Charge:	Assault with Deadly Weapon
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Year Crime:	2013
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Year Cleared:	2020
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Canada
County or Region of Crime:	Ontario
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"David Sullivan was wrongly convicted of aggravated assault and using a weapon, a knife, in committing an assault on his mother in Ontario, Canada. On December 1, 2013, after ingesting between 30 to 80 of the Wellbutrin tablets in a suicide attempt, he had a profound break with reality. Believing his mother to be an alien, he attacked her, stabbing her several times with two kitchen knives. "
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Innocence Proved By:	"On June 3, 2020 the Ontario Court of Appeals reversed Sullivan's convictions of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, and ordered his acquittal of the charges."
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Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"R. v. Sullivan, 2020 ONCA 333 (Ontario Ct. of Appeals, 6-3-2020) (Setting aside convictions and ordering judgment of acquittal)"
Information Location 1:	https://www.ontariocourts.ca/decisions/2020/2020ONCA0333.htm
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David Sullivan

Charge:

Assault with Deadly Weapon

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

2020

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Canada

County or Region of Crime:

Ontario

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Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On June 3, 2020 the Ontario Court of Appeals reversed Sullivan's convictions of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, and ordered his acquittal of the charges."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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White

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"R. v. Sullivan, 2020 ONCA 333 (Ontario Ct. of Appeals, 6-3-2020) (Setting aside convictions and ordering judgment of acquittal)"

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https://www.ontariocourts.ca/decisions/2020/2020ONCA0333.htm

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