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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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0.83 |
Charge: |
Customs Violation |
Sentence: |
2-1/2 years |
Year Convicted: |
2007 |
Year
Cleared:
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2008 |
Location
of Trial:
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Australia |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal) |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted in August 2007 of importing from Indonesia two million Sudafed and Actifed cold and flu tablets that contained a commercial quantity of pseudoephedrine. The tablets were in boxes in a container of goods delivered to Belinda Campbell's furniture store in Sydney -- Chic Teak. An Indonesian handled orders for the store and he had ordered items for his personal use or sale on previous occasions. The surveillance tapes showed that Campbell did not open any of the boxes of tablets in the container, and their was no record she ordered the tablets. However, she was charged with the Customs violation of illegally importing a commercial quantity of pseudoephedrine tablets. She was convicted and in November 2007 sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison. On appeal she pressed her claim that she did not know the tablets were in the container. In September 2008 the South Wales Court of Criminal Appeals quashed her conviction in the basis that the act of importation had ended by the time she first saw the container. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Surveillance tapes of the container being delivered near her furniture store. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Conviction quashed by the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal in September 2008.
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Age
When Released:
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45 |
Information Source 1: |
Shop-owner's drug conviction quashed, ABC News, September 16, 2008 |
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/16/2365955.htm |
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Furniture shipments contained pseudoephedrine, court hears, By Jennifer Cooke (staff), Sydney Morning Herald, August 9, 2007 |
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/furniture-shipments-contained-pseudoephedrine-court-hears/2007/08/09/1186530518176.html |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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