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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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1.1 |
Charge: |
"Fraud (passing bad checks, documents, casino, etc.)" |
Sentence: |
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Year Convicted: |
1993 |
Year
Cleared:
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2003 |
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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"Co-defendant of brothers Len and Dean Ireland. The three were wrongly convicted in 1993 of what was known as the Karpa Gold scam, in which they alleged swindled investors out of AUS$6 million. They were imprisoned for for 13 months. In 2003 their convictions were quashed by the Western Australia Supreme Court on March 28, 2003." |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Innocence
Proved By:
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Defendant
Aided By:
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"Engineer Michael McGowan worked pro bono on the case for more than two years to uncover new evidence of the men's innocence, and spent more than $60,000 of his own money." |
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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When Imprisoned:
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Information Source 1: |
Easterday v R (2003) 143 A Crim R 154. |
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Location 1:
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Information
Source 2:
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"Karpa gold fall guys, Ross Coulthart (Reporter), Ninemsn, May 18, 2003" |
Information
Location 2:
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http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/article_1276.asp |
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Source 3:
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"Cott man's hunch sees gold fraud convictions quashed, By Brett Christian, Perth Post, April 5, 2008" |
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Location 3:
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http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/20030405/news/003.shtml |
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Location 5:
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org