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Hanemaayer's blond hair and blue eyes is what lead the police and the victims mother to believe he was the perpetrator

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1. Using the list from Innocence Canada surrounding causes, identify and explain which and how the causes contributed to the wrongful conviction in your case.

In this case professional misconduct was the surrounding cause to this wrongful conviction. Even though the police had visited Hanemaayer in 2006, after Paul Bernardo confess, they did not tell him this information and until The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, contacted Hanemaayer themselves, no one from the crown attorney office had told him of this case information

1. Was the wrongly convicted person awarded compensation for their situation?  If so, how much?

Anthony Hanemaayer was compensated 1.1 million dollars in 2010 for his situation

1. In your opinion, should a wrongly convicted person be awarded compensation and comment on what you would determine is a satisfactory award (if any).

I believe a wrongly convicted person should be awarded compensation, because our justice system took away so many years of their lives for something they didn't even do. I believe no amount of money is going to replace their years lost but it will definitely help in their future free years to come. I believe the amount of money should be based on the amount of years you were convicted, starting at 2 million dollars.

1. What did you learn about the topic that surprised you?

Something that surprised me for this case was that the police knew someone else had confessed to the case, yet they still withheld the information while an innocent man was in jail.

1. What are you most likely to remember from this research?

From this research I will remember Anthony Hameaayer and his family. They were put through a lot of stress and emotions throughout the trials and the convictions. Families that go through wrongful convictions but still stick together and fight till the end is what still gives me hope for the other unfortunate people in our world

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This is Paul Bernando. He is the man who confessed to the break and enter and assault of the 15-year-old girl. This is who Hanemaayer was mistaken for

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Anthony Hanemaayer's mother and father who never gave up hope for their son. They knew the man they raised would never be able to commit such a horrible crime

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This video is Hanemaayer's lawyer, James Lockyer who is asking that the conviction be overturned. Hanemaayer and his parents join the lawyer in this press conference.

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http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/think-and-grow-rich/198261 Anthony Hanemaayer was convicted nearly 20 years ago of a sexual assault that imprisoned killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo has now confessed to. James Lockyer represented Anthony Hanemaayer today, asking that his client's 1989 assault conviction for the violent rape of a 15-year-old girl in Toronto be overturned.

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This is Innocence Canada's take on Anthony Hanemaayer and his very unfair conviction. The day his life was turned around and all about the case. Innocence Canada takes on wrongful convictions and helps all people get proper justice

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This article is Hanemaayer and his family demanding justice and pleading for the courts to take another look at his case. His parents knew that their son could never commit such a crime so they stood with him

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Anthony Hanemaayer's acquittal yesterday for a 1987 sex attack committed by Paul Bernardo exposed what his lawyers call a multitude of problems plaguing Canada's justice system, including the use of dangerous eyewitness evidence.

Hanemaayer's lawyers hope his wrongful conviction and the 20 years he spent paying for Bernardo's crime will translate into compensation for their client and a police investigation into whether the serial killer committed other offences, including the 1990 disappearance of Elizabeth Bain.

They also hope the case will change how eyewitness testimony is used, considered the leading cause of wrongful convictions. In the U.S., "eyewitness identification evidence" has played a role in about 75 per cent of wrongful convictions overturned through DNA testing.

In Canada, a hard-hitting report came seven years ago on the case of Thomas Sophonow, who was wrongly convicted twice of a 1981 murder. Few of its recommendations to reduce miscarriages of justice from the use of this evidence have been put into place.

"Anthony Hanemaayer's wrongful conviction could happen just as easily in 2008 as it did back in 1989," lawyer James Lockyer said after Hanemaayer emerged with his parents into the sun outside the Ontario Court of Appeal to enjoy his first moments as a finally free man.

"I'm very happy that it's over," said Hanemaayer, a soft-spoken 40-year-old roofer who appeared close to tears, including when asked about his parents, Peter and Wilma. "If I didn't have them," he said, "I'd be lost."

Hanemaayer was accused of being the knife-wielding assailant who broke into a Scarborough house through a basement window sometime before dawn on Sept. 29, 1987, crept upstairs to a 15-year-old girl's bedroom and threatened to kill her if she didn't stay quiet. Startled by the victim's mother, the attacker ran out the door.

"This was a particularly nasty crime and it took no imagination to know what the intruder's intentions were," Lockyer told an appeal court panel headed by Justice Marc Rosenberg, who expressed profound regret for the "devastating effect" the case had on Hanemaayer and his family.

Hanemaayer said it's impossible to reduce the ordeal to dollars. Nineteen at the time of his arrest and newly married, he lost his wife and expectations for the future.

He had been working at a construction site in the neighbourhood, when he was identified by the victim's mother as the attacker. Her honest but mistaken observation was the key component of the Crown's case.

Hanemaayer felt certain her testimony would put him behind the walls of a penitentiary for at least six years. Part way through his 1989 trial, he changed his pleas to guilty and was sentenced to two years less a day for breaking and entering and assault with a weapon.

"It happens more often than you think, in serious cases with a defendant who swears he's innocent," said Frank Addario, president of the Criminal Lawyers' Association, "They cave in and plead guilty for the certainty of a reduced sentence."

Lockyer said both Hanemaayer and the victim were let down by the justice system.

Notes made by the prosecutor at Hanemaayer's preliminary hearing indicate she recognized the weakness of her case was that it was based on one woman who had at most a 60-second glimpse of the attacker, the appeal panel was told. On the other hand, the prosecutor considered it a plus that the victim's mother was very confident.

That, in itself, is a problem.

Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist and noted memory expert from the University of Washington, told the public inquiry into Sophonow's case that there's little connection between an eyewitness's confidence level and accuracy - but confident eyewitnesses have a powerful effect on jurors.

Hanemaayer's trial lawyer seemed awed by the testimony of the victim's mother and only too willing to arrange for his client to enter a guilty plea, Lockyer said.

"We didn't have money for a top-notch lawyer," said Peter Hanemaayer.

Bernardo made an overture to police through his lawyer to discuss other crimes in 2006. He described the 1987 attack in detail to two Toronto police detectives.

Although police met with Hanemaayer soon after the Bernardo interview and told him they didn't believe he'd committed the crime after all, they never mentioned they'd spoken with the serial killer, let alone that he'd confessed.

Hanemaayer only learned that last year, when the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted offered to take up his case. Were it not for that, "I probably would have gone to the grave" blamed for Bernardo's crime, he said.

The association had been given the transcript of the Bernardo interview as part of the evidence the Crown turned over to the defence for the trial of Robert Baltovich, Bain's former boyfriend, who had been scheduled to stand trial a second time this past spring for her murder.

Acquitted in April after the Crown admitted it had no case against him, Baltovich was also in court yesterday, supporting Hanemaayer, and echoed calls for an inquiry.

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Anthony Hanemaayer's acquittal yesterday for a 1987 sex attack committed by Paul Bernardo exposed what his lawyers call a multitude of problems plaguing Canada's justice system, including the use of dangerous eyewitness evidence.

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1. Who are you completing your case study on?

I am writing my case study on Anthony Hanemaayer

1. Briefly summarize and explain the situation of your selected wrongly convicted person.

On September 29, 1987, there was a break-in in the bedroom of a 15-year-old girl. The offender held a knife to this young girl and was about to assault her when her mother entered the room, saw the perpetrator, tried to intervene, then he ran off and drove away in a white car. The victim's mother took it into her own hands to find the man who did this. When she found out a local construction company who was working down the road had a worker who fit the description. This is when Anthony Hanemayyer’s life was going to change drastically. The police arrested Hanemayyer with break and enter and assault. But Anthony did not own a white car and he only drove a black work truck when he traveled to work. During the trial Hanemayyer was offered two deals by the crown, but he stuck by his word that he did not do it. Finally the stress and hopelessness got to him and he made a deal pleading guilty. Innocence Canada lawyer, James Locker and Joanne McLean, took his case in 2008 and found out that in 2006, Paul Bernardo had plead guilty for a break and enter and assault which was the same break and enter Anthony Hanemaayer had been convicted for.

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This video is a good real life perspective from an outside person looking at Hanemayyers case and collecting data around it

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This article is showing the compensation that Hanemaayer received for his wrongful conviction. He received his money in 2010, 21 years after his conviction

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Paul Bernardo Confessed to 1987 Break-in and Assault with Intent to Rape, but Crown and Police did not Disclose Confession, Statement of Claim Alleges

WINDSOR, ON, July 7 /CNW/ - Anthony Hanemaayer has commenced a $1.1 million lawsuit for damages he suffered as a result of his 1989 conviction for break and enter and assault with intent to rape. The defendants in the action are the Police Services Board, Police members, Mr. Hanemaayer 's former lawyer and the Attorney General for Ontario.

On October 18, 1989, Mr. Hanemaayer pleaded guilty and was convicted of the charges which resulted from a September 29, 1987 break-in and attack on a young woman at a Scarborough residence. The woman's mother was awakened by the noise and when she discovered the attacker sitting on top of her daughter he fled. The mother subsequently identified Mr. Hanemaayer as the perpetrator, in part, based on her belief that he was working at a nearby construction site.

Mr. Hanemaayer denied all knowledge of the crime and insisted he was innocent, but, following completion of testimony from the victim's mother at his trial, Mr. Hanemaayer accepted the advice of his lawyer to plead guilty as part of a sentencing agreement. Mr. Hanemaayer was sentenced to two years less one day imprisonment.

In 2005, about fifteen years after Mr. Hanemaayer was released on parole, Paul Bernardo informed his own lawyer that he had committed the September 29, 1987 break-in and attack. Bernardo's lawyer immediately notified the Police Sex Crimes Unit and two detectives were assigned to investigate Bernardo's admission. Mr. Hanemaayer 's statement of claim alleges that when the detectives interviewed Bernardo in April, 2006, he gave them a detailed and accurate account of the crime, however when they interviewed Mr. Hanemaayer the following month and he told them he didn't commit the crime and pleaded guilty on the advice of his lawyer to avoid a long penitentiary sentence, they neglected to tell Mr. Hanemaayer that he had been wrongfully convicted.

The Police detectives then prepared a report confirming that Bernardo had committed the September 29, 1987 break-in and attack which they delivered to a Crown Attorney. Mr. Hanemaayer alleges that the Police detectives and the Crown Attorney never told him that Bernardo had confessed to the crime; rather, he learned of Bernardo's confession in late 2007, about two years after the police received evidence that Bernardo had admitted to the crime. He learned of Bernardo's confession from Robert Baltovitch's defence counsel who discovered it during the course of their preparation for Baltovich's re-trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Bain .

On June 25, 2008, Mr. Hanemaayer 's appeal from his conviction was allowed by the Ontario Court of Appeal. His conviction for break and enter and committing an assault was set aside and the stay of proceedings for a charge of assault while using a weapon was set aside and acquittals were entered by the Court of Appeal on both counts.

Mr. Hanemaayer was imprisoned for sixteen months. He spent eight months in prison awaiting his trial and another eight months in prison following his conviction before he was released on parole.

In his lawsuit, Mr. Hanemaayer alleges that the investigating police officer "rushed to judgment" by presuming Mr. Hanemaayer was the perpetrator of the crime and that he did not consider Paul Bernardo as a suspect even though the Scarborough Rapist had begun his rampage.

The statement of claim also alleges that Mr. Hanemaayer 's lawyer breached his duty by encouraging and permitting Mr. Hanemaayer to plead guilty while he continued to maintain his innocence.

Mr. Hanemaayer alleges that the failure of the Police detectives and the Crown Attorney to disclose Bernardo's confession caused him to suffer prolonged "emotional and psychological damage" and delayed his application to have his conviction quashed.

Mr. Hanemaayer 's lawyer, Harvey T. Strosberg, Q.C. of Sutts, Strosberg LLP said: "This action raises the important issue of who caused an undoubtedly innocent man to be wrongfully imprisoned."

Sutts, Strosberg LLP is one of Canada's leading litigation law firms. In 2008, Mr. Strosberg and his partner David Robins settled the wrongful conviction claim of James Driskell for more than $4 million. Mr. Driskell was wrongfully convicted of murder in Manitoba and spent 13 years in prison.

SOURCE Sutts, Strosberg LLP Barristers & Solicitors

For further information: For further information: David Robins, 519.561.6211, Sutts, Strosberg LLP or visit the website www.strosbergco.com

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$1.1 Million Action Commenced by Anthony Hanemaayer for Wrongful Conviction

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Paul Bernardo Confessed to 1987 Break-in and Assault with Intent to Rape, but Crown and Police did not Disclose Confession, Statement of Claim Alleges WINDSOR, ON, July 7 /CNW/ - Anthony Hanemaayer has commenced a $1.1 million lawsuit for damages he suffered as a result of his 1989 conviction for break and enter and assault with intent to rape.

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This article is about Hanemaayer and his lawyer suing the government for his wrongful conviction and for taking many years away from him young life

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TORONTO - A man sent to jail for a crime notorious sex killer Paul Bernardo later confessed to has filed a $1.1-million lawsuit, claiming his wrongful conviction destroyed his reputation and ended his marriage.

Anthony Hanemaayer, 42, is suing police, the Attorney General for Ontario and his former lawyer, citing negligence on the part of the lawyer and police.

Hanemaayer was convicted in 1989 for break and enter and assault with intent to rape a 15-year-old girl in her Scarborough, Ont., home. The mother of the victim chased off the attacker.

In 2008 the Ontario Court of Appeal wiped Hanemaayer's record clean, calling the conviction "profoundly regrettable" and a "miscarriage of justice."

"He's had to live with, and to some extent continues to live with, the label of being a convicted sex offender, even though he's innocent," Hanemaayer's lawyer, David Robins, said in an interview from Windsor, Ont.

Hanemaayer is "stuck with the stigma," and has endured humiliation, psychological trauma and the loss of his reputation, he added.

While Hanemaayer lived with the conviction for decades, the statement of claim alleges authorities knew Hanemaayer was innocent for years.

The allegations have not been proven in court and the named parties are yet to file statements of defence.

In 2005, about 15 years after Hanemaayer was released on parole, Bernardo confessed to the attack, first to his own counsel and one year later to Det. Brad Hoover and Det.-Const. Darlene Coulis, the suit alleges.

Paul Bernardo was convicted of the murder of schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy. He is serving an indefinite prison sentence after being declared a dangerous offender.

After Bernardo's 2006 jailhouse confession police interviewed Hanemaayer, but did not tell him about Bernardo, the suit alleges. He only found out after lawyers working on another case came across the documents.

Hanemaayer declared his innocence to officers during that 2006 interview.

A report by the officers written after the meeting concluded that "Paul Bernardo is the person responsible for committing this offence," the suit alleges.

The lawsuit also claims the report was given to the Crown Attorney's office, but the information was never disclosed to Hanemaayer.

The police "rushed to judgment," the suit alleges, using an eye-witness account from the victim's mother, and her own suspicions that the perpetrator may have worked at a nearby construction site.

At the time Hanemaayer's lawyer, Gerry Samulovitch, urged him to plead guilty to spare a six-year sentence. Hanemaayer did and was sentenced to two years less a day and spent 16 months in jail.

Earlier this year the Ontario government denied Hanemaayer compensation, saying such payouts only apply to "rare, unusual cases."

Hanemaayer, who now lives in Harriston, Ont., still faces daily challenges, his lawyer said.

"He's having difficulty securing employment. He's doing his best to overcome the difficulties he has faced as a result of his wrongful conviction," said Robins.

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Man jailed in Bernardo crime sues government, lawyer

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TORONTO - A man sent to jail for a crime notorious sex killer Paul Bernardo later confessed to has filed a $1.1-million lawsuit, claiming his wrongful conviction destroyed his reputation and ended his marriage. Anthony Hanemaayer, 42, is suing police, the Attorney General for Ontario and his former lawyer, citing negligence on the part of the lawyer and police.