Rachel Wilkinson

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Charge:	"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)"
Sentence:	"9 months home detention and $40,000 restitutino"
Years Imprisoned:	0.58
Year Crime:	2010
Year Convicted:	2012
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Zealand
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City of Crime:	Auckland
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Rachel Wilkinson was wrongly convicted in 2012 of the theft of $40,000 worth of bathroom products and selling them on Trade Me in 2010. Wilkinson, a mother of three living in Auckland, New Zealand, was sentenced to nine months home detention and restitution of $40,000. "
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Innocence Proved By:	In September 2015 a jury in Auckland acquitted Wilkinson after her retrial.
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Age When Imprisoned:	31
Age When Released:	32
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Woman's conviction overturned after boss wrongly accuses her of theft, By Maria Slade, Sunday Star Times (Auckland, NZL), October 4 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/72551988/womans-conviction-overturned-after-boss-wrongly-accuses-her-of-theft.html
Information Source 2:	"Mother 'hurt' by wrongful conviction, By Maria Slade, Sunday Star Times (Auckland, NZL), October 4 2015"
Information Location 2:	http://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/sunday-star-times/20151004/282063390785782/TextView
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Rachel Wilkinson

Charge:

"Theft (including swindling/fraud, deception and grand larceny)"

Sentence:

"9 months home detention and $40,000 restitutino"

Years Imprisoned:

0.58

Year Crime:

2010

Year Convicted:

2012

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Zealand

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Auckland

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

"Rachel Wilkinson was wrongly convicted in 2012 of the theft of $40,000 worth of bathroom products and selling them on Trade Me in 2010. Wilkinson, a mother of three living in Auckland, New Zealand, was sentenced to nine months home detention and restitution of $40,000. "

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

In September 2015 a jury in Auckland acquitted Wilkinson after her retrial.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

31

Age When Released:

32

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Woman's conviction overturned after boss wrongly accuses her of theft, By Maria Slade, Sunday Star Times (Auckland, NZL), October 4 2015"

Information Location 1:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/72551988/womans-conviction-overturned-after-boss-wrongly-accuses-her-of-theft.html

Information Source 2:

"Mother 'hurt' by wrongful conviction, By Maria Slade, Sunday Star Times (Auckland, NZL), October 4 2015"

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http://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/sunday-star-times/20151004/282063390785782/TextView

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