Liland Affair

The Liland Affair was a Norwegian murder trial which has become known as a miscarriage of justice. It started in 1969, on December 24, when two men, John Olav Larsen and Håkon Edvard Johansen were found murdered in the Norwegian town Fredrikstad. Per Kristian Liland was convicted for both murders, but after having served the sentence he was acquitted. The affair has become an embarrassment to the Norwegian legal court system and government by law in Norway and has been portrayed as a proof of Norwegian collectivism.