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Remember Carnita Matthews? She was the Muslim mother of seven who was jailed at first instance for falsely accusing a policeman of trying to tear off her face veil after he pulled her over for a random breath test in Woodbine in 2010.
Patrol car video showed police had done no such thing and Matthews was sentenced to six months in jail for making a false complaint.
But her conviction was overturned in the Federal Court, in part because the person who signed that false complaint against the police was wearing a niqab which covered her face, and the Justice of the Peace who witnessed the signature could not prove it was Matthews'.