Sentences with phrase «writ of actual innocence»
When her fellowship ended, the investigation in Sabein's case was complete, and Susan and the legal team were preparing to file a Petition for Writ of Actual Innocence.
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On April 7, 2016, the Supreme Court of Virginia granted Keith Harward's Writ of Actual Innocence, and the following day he was released from prison a free man.
A one - letter change in Virginia's writ of actual innocence law five years ago that was dismissed by some as inconsequential may have made a big change in the life of a Chesapeake man exonerated last week of a 1977 rape.
Efforts to appeal Seward's conviction were denied, but in 2009, his attorney filed a Writ of Actual Innocence, and in 2012 the Circuit Court for Baltimore County granted Seward a new trial.
Watford won a Writ of Actual Innocence in the Virginia Supreme Court last month, becoming the first person in Virginia to win a Writ that was opposed by the Attorney General's office.
In 2012, MAIP worked with the Virginia Attorney General and the Innocence Project to lower the standard for a Writ of Actual Innocence, making it more achievable in the wake of the decision in the Thomas Haynesworth case.
In 2016, MAIP and the UBIPC successfully stopped an attempt to undo a court decision finding that the state did not have the right to appeal when a defendant won a Writ of Actual Innocence.