A woman who falsely accused a man of sexually assaulting her has been given community service.
At Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday, Caroline Roy (24), of Park Road, Edinburgh, admitted that on May 24 at a house in Aberdour Crescent, Dunfermline, she falsely told two PCs that she had been sexually assaulted, in an attempt to defeat the ends of justice.
The court heard the accused and her former partner lived in the complainer's house.
Depute fiscal James Moncrieff told the court Roy's partner took the complainer's car keys without his consent and they took the car for a run.
"The complainer later noticed his car had been moved due to the position of his car seat," Mr Moncrieff said. "The man challenged the accused and threatened to go to the police.
"The accused, assisted by her former partner, decided to file a complaint of false sexual assault to the police."
Roy's solicitor said his client was appalled by her actions but had been pressurised by her former partner.
Roy was sentenced to 120 hours' community service.
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Those 120 hours should be spent lecturing young kids about making false statements to police.
At least it wasn't a false RAPE accusation ...
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A group of deaf friends were stabbed at a bar in Florida after a woman mistook their sign language for gang signs.
Alfred Stewart, 31, was partying at the Ocean's Eleven Lounge in Hallendale Beach, Fla., with some friends who were also deaf on Saturday night when the group's signing caught the eye of gang-banger Barbara Lee.
The 45-year-old Lee thought the group was throwing gang signs at her, and responded by flashing gang signs back at them, cops said.
The group motioned for her to leave them alone.
Eventually, Lee left the bar but returned with two members of her crew, 19-year-old Marco Ibanez and a 17-year-old who was not identified, cops said.
Ibanez allegedly pulled a knife and began stabbing Stewart and his friends.
Stewart and three of his friends were taken to a hospital and treated for stab wounds.
A bouncer at the bar who had a bottle smashed over his head in the melee was also taken to the hospital. None of the injuries were life-threatening, officials said.
Lee, Ibanez and the 17-year-old were arrested and charged with aggravated battery.
Stewart's mother, Brenda, said there was no way her son was making gang signs.
"Only sign language," she told WSVN television. "That's the only way all of them, they do sign language."
Supreme Court Grants Even Greater Immunity for Prosecutors
Innocence Network Letter from 19 Exonerees Demands Accountability
On March 29, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Connick v. Thompson that the Orleans Parish Attorney does not have to pay John Thompson the $14 million he was awarded in a lawsuit against the Parish Attorney’s Office for prosecutorial misconduct. Thompson was wrongfully imprisoned for 18 years - 14 on death row. In response to the decision, the Innocence Network released a letter signed by 19 innocent people who were wrongfully convicted, in part, because of the bad acts of prosecutors.
The letter, which was addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Presidents of the National District Attorneys Association and the National Association of Attorneys Generals, demands to know what systems they intend to put in place to ensure that innocent people don’t fall victim to overzealous prosecutors.
Citing a recent report by the Northern California Innocence Project, the letter notes that prosecutors are rarely disciplined for their misdeeds. The report found that prosecutors were guilty of misconduct in California 707 times from 1997 to 2009, yet were disciplined only 7 times. The letter also points to a 2010 USA Today investigation, that documented 201 instances where federal prosecutors violated laws or ethics rules since 1997, yet only one of those prosecutors was suspended from practicing law - and that was only for one year.
"Misconduct was found in the cases of all the innocent people who signed onto this letter, yet none of the prosecutors involved were disciplined in any way," said Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project. "How many lives are going to be destroyed before we realize that prosecutors are no different than any other professionals? There are good ones and there are bad ones, and we need systems in place to stop the bad ones."
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