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"Survivor" Champ Courts Victory

Okay, so it wasn't exactly that final Tribal Council where he won the million bucks, but Richard Hatch still has to like the outcome of his latest trial.

The original Survivor champ scored a major court victory this week when a Rhode Island judge overturned Hatch's conviction of assaulting a former lover.

In September, Newport District Court Judge Robert K. Pirraglia found Hatch guilty of roughing up ex-boyfriend Glenn Boyanowski and sentenced the Survivor winner to a year's probation and ordered him to steer clear of Boyanowski.

Hatch, 40, appealed the decision, saying he was merely defending his turf by shoving Boyanowski down a flight of stairs on August 29, when the man showed up uninvited to Hatch's home. Boyanowski suffered minor injuries in the fall.

After two days of hearings, Newport Superior Court Judge Daniel Procaccini bought Hatch's self-defense argument and tossed the lower court ruling on Tuesday, according to the Providence Journal.

"This should never have gotten this far," Hatch tells the paper. "If it wasn't for the first judge's reprehensible lack of objectivity, this second court's time would never have been wasted."

For those keeping score at home, this is the second time Hatch has beaten a criminal rap. Just days after his return from the island of Pulau Tiga in 2000, he was arrested on charges that he roughed up his then-9-year-old adopted son during an early morning jog. But the charges were later dropped. Hatch subsequently sued state officials and police, claiming he was falsely arrested, but that suit was tossed.

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