Sentences with phrase «against wrongful convictions»

The result is that governments respond to pressures to improve the justice system's performance by reducing procedures and safeguards against wrongful convictions, and wrongful decisions in civil cases.

That is why the burden of proof in criminal cases must be as high as it is, «proof beyond a reasonable doubt» — to provide adequate protection against wrongful convictions.

We welcome motivated students, attorneys, and community members to join us in the fight against wrongful convictions.

However, in some areas, further reforms are necessary to ensure fair proceedings and to protect against wrongful convictions.

At the expense of justice, governments improve the cost - efficiency of the criminal justice system but thereby weaken the safeguards against wrongful convictions.

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He has also done much work on injustice issues, including campaigning against the wrongful conviction of the Guildford Four.

At the same time, he contends, the news media could and should be the most effective bulwark against wrongful convictions.

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The trial judge based this determination on the procedural safeguards against wrongful convictions in s. 16 (3) of the Canada Evidence Act,

If even that one area is addressed, innocent Pennsylvanians would gain a significant protection against a wrongful conviction.

But it would also remove an important safeguard against wrongful convictions.

Therefore rules of procedure and practice always give way to, so as to compensate for, the lack of adequate resources, instead of holding firm to maintain the safeguards against wrongful convictions.

While no criminal investigation can ever be said to provide certainty of truth, the enormous cost and care that typically go along with terrorism investigations offers a limited but important safeguard against wrongful conviction.

California, Connecticut and Wisconsin have also created commissions to study the causes of wrongful conviction, and in 2003, the Illinois legislature passed into law 85 recommendations made by a special commission created there to study capital punishment and create safeguards against all wrongful convictions.