Darren Wilfred Tustin

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Charge:	"Child Pornography (Possession, Manufacture, or Dissemination)"
Sentence:	1 year
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
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Year Convicted:	2003
Year Cleared:	2007
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Darren W. Tustin was wrongly convicted of child pornography in October 2003 based on pictures found on a computer disk. Tustin was sentenced to one year in prison and sentenced to register as a sex offender for ten years. He served six months in prison. Tustin appealed his conviction, and in April 2007 it was quashed by a unanimous three-judge panel of the Criminal Appeal Court on the basis of two grounds. First, the prosecution had not provided Tustin's lawyer with copies of the disk the pictures were found on so his computer expert could examine them and make an evaluation. Second, there was no evidence presented by the prosecution that Tustin had any knowledge of what was on the disk. The Court did not order a retrial, because the prosecution didn't present evidence at Tustin's trial that could establish his guilt."
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Age When Imprisoned:	37
Age When Released:	38
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Lye dad's child porn conviction quashed as 'unsafe', Stourbridge News, April 4, 2007"
Information Location 1:	http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/display.var.1306581.0.lye_dads_child_porn_conviction_quashed_as_unsafe.php
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Darren Wilfred Tustin

Charge:

"Child Pornography (Possession, Manufacture, or Dissemination)"

Sentence:

1 year

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2003

Year Cleared:

2007

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

37

Age When Released:

38

Sex:

Male

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Information Source 1:

"Lye dad's child porn conviction quashed as 'unsafe', Stourbridge News, April 4, 2007"

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http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/display.var.1306581.0.lye_dads_child_porn_conviction_quashed_as_unsafe.php

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