Sentences with phrase «basis of our innocence»

It can not be on the basis of our innocence, for none of us are innocent.

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It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

In physical markets, institutional traders might claim innocence based on the timely delivery of tangible commodities.

Going on cable news and making a preemptive, point - by - point case for Trump's innocence is the surest method of convincing the base that they needn't pay attention to investigation - related hysteria anymore.

Morality plays, based on scriptural themes and dramatized for the illiterate masses of the Middle Ages the struggle of good with evil, embodied in the various characters virtues such as innocence, beauty, kindness, and patriotism in their triumph over vices such as sloth, ugliness, gluttony, lying, and cheating.

Red Dwarf «Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

«Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

Most of us determined his guilt or innocence based on our broader views of black people, celebrities, athletes, women, violence, L.A., cops.

While the government in some limited cases can legitimately place restrictions on the public's right to access certain information, attempts of the Nigerian authorities to justify the total closure of information related to the names of public officials from whom funds were recovered on the basis of «ongoing criminal investigation» and «presumption of innocence goes far beyond the limitations allowed under international law, and would promote secret recoveries.»

«Our justice system is based on the presumption of innocence,» said W.F.P. executive director Bill Lipton, in a statement to Capital.

There were many things wrong with the president's statements not least of all a suggestion of a presidential veto over the judiciary which is contrary to and indeed antithetical to separation of powers which underpins our constitutional order; and a severe misunderstanding and / or disregard for the presumption of innocence which is the basis of our criminal justice system.

«It's almost a childlike innocence — you ask questions that adults might never ask, because they have a background where the question is no longer appropriate,» says Harmit Singh Malik, an assistant member of the Seattle - based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's basic science division.

Since the 1990s, when DNA testing was first introduced, Innocence Project researchers have reported that 73 percent of the 239 convictions overturned through DNA testing were based on eyewitness testimony.

This particular group of kids are also still filled with a very child - like innocence and they take just about everything on a very literal basis.

Of course, there's the question of Longo's guilt or innocence and whether the stories he's telling Finkel are reality - baseOf course, there's the question of Longo's guilt or innocence and whether the stories he's telling Finkel are reality - baseof Longo's guilt or innocence and whether the stories he's telling Finkel are reality - based.

Although the prosecutor had convinced a jury to sentence the pair to death based on questionable circumstantial evidence, the nagging doubts about their guilt or innocence which had turned the case into something of a cause celebre have remained unresolved to this very day.

Based on Orhan Pamuk's best - selling novel The Museum of Innocence, Innocence of Memories tells the story of a doomed affair between Kemal and Fusun.

This symbol of innocence — based upon the daughter of Dr. Martin Foldi, an Auschwitz survivor whose daughter was wearing a red coat when he last saw her — superbly humanises both the plight of the thousands of Jews murdered in the brutal evacuation, but the millions of Jews who became victims of the Holocaust.

Writer - director Michael Reeves pulls no punches with this absorbing material, and while the film (based on Ronald Bassett's novel) fudges many of the historical facts, it's unrelenting in its depiction of the way in which unbridled evil has the power to destroy all forms of innocence and virtue.

The Age of Innocence — Based on the Edith Wharton novel and directed by Martin Scorsese, this 1993 adaptation stars Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.

Based on a compelling true story and spurred by a «60 Minutes» segment, the film tells the story of Betty Anne Walters (Hilary Swank) who dedicated 18 years of her life to proving the innocence of her incarcerated brother, Kenny (Sam Rockwell).

The Gilded Age (Simon & Schuster) is set in WASP - y modern - day Cleveland and based on The House of Mirth; The Innocents (Voice) is set in a Jewish neighborhood in contemporary London and based on The Age of Innocence.

Rosalie Hollingsworth, subject of OWN Network's 2013 «Abducted» segment based on her book, Destruction of Innocence (iUniverse)

The appearance of Albert Bierstadt's landscape Mountain Scene (1880 - 90) in both The Age of Innocence (1993) and The Hunger Games (2012) serves as the basis for Mathis Gasser's Grasshopper (Mountain Scene)(2015 - 16), in which he reproduces the original painting twice and hangs the pair beside a screen playing footage from the 2015 - 16 TV adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle, a series that deals with the role of cultural artefacts in imagining counterfactual histories.

Los Angeles - based artist and performer Gordon Henderson brings his own macabre methodology to this eldritch narrative of innocence abandoned to devouring menace with his own Hansel and Gretel exhibition on view through January 14, 2017 at Bermudez Projects.

Betts Project is pleased to present «a dream of innocence», a solo exhibition by London - based German and Canadian architects Florian Beigel and Philip Christou.

And Russell Tyler, in his solo at DCKT, deployed vats of paint to construct blocky abstractions based on the elemental 8 - bit graphics of early computer games, endowing his paintings with the sense that they are «as much about lost innocence as they are about lost technologies.»

They cleared him of 3 of the four charges based on his protestation of innocence.

No offense, but I see defendant's who avoid conviction all the time based on the presumption of innocence.

Christie Blatchford has castigated the party and other public officials for abandoning the «presumption of innocence», and has highlighted the wrong of ruining a man's reputation based on anonymous allegations.

Whether you are fighting a traffic ticket in the hopes of a lesser fine or points, or if you are arguing your innocence based on extenuating circumstances at the time of the violation, we can help.

So in this case the court's prior «knowledge» of the defendant's guilt was based upon an incorrect statement, and asserting their innocence (or rather, asserting they are not known to be innocent or guilty, as before the original sentence) would not be a patently false claim.

Mr. Fogle has worked with The Innocence Project, based in New York and affiliated with Cardozo School of Law, since 2009.

Mr. Grabel has long fought for the rights of his clients and strongly believes in the rights of all people accused of a criminal offense, he is proud to support the Access to Justice Fund, The Innocence Project and Proving Innocence, a Michigan based organization fighting to free the wrongly convicted.

The Illinois Innocence Project, based at the University of Illinois Springfield, has exonerated ten clients so far.

The Illinois Innocence Project based at the University of Illinois Springfield has received similar grants before.

Posts cover resolved and outstanding cases in which lawyers are fighting inmates» convictions based on evidence of their innocence.

Innocence Project of Florida Files Amicus Brief with Supreme Court of Florida IPF Urges Court to Allow Defendants to File for New Trial Based on FBI Junk Science Today the Innocence Project of Florida (IPF), along with The Innocence Network, -LSB-...]

Nationally, 10 percent of those whose innocence was proven by DNA testing pled guilty; in Maryland, 40 percent of those who were cleared based on DNA evidence pled guilty.

In April of 2014, MAIP and lawyers from Miller & Chevlier, as well as the Richmond Commonwealth Attorney Michael Herring, petitioned Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe for an absolute pardon based on actual innocence.

Statutes of limitations, limiting the time in which a prisoner can seek a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, can not limit courts» ability to consider new evidence of actual innocence.

Courts have authority to consider new evidence of actual innocence without regard to the statutory one - year limitation period for newly discovered evidence, and that the standard for granting a new trial based upon newly discovered evidence should not be a strict «outcome - determinative» test, at least where the state relied at trial upon facts that turned out to be false.

Advocate for the release and / or exoneration of individuals whose cases present meritorious innocence claims based on evidence of actual innocence;

The Innocence Project of Florida filed a motion for post conviction relief based on the new DNA evidence and the unlawful destruction of exculpatory by the police.

The majority holds that Riofta failed to show that the results of a DNA test on the hat (which had been stolen the day before Ratthana was shot at) «would demonstrated innocence on a more probable than not basis.»

This right is based on the presumption of innocence (i.e. everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty).

R (R) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2016] EWCA Civ 490, [2016] 1 WLR 4125 (Supreme Court; currently on appeal to the Supreme Court) A challenge to the disclosure of information about acquittals on criminal records certificates, based on an allegation that it was incompatible with the presumption of innocence under Article 6 and the right to respect for private life under Article 8 of the Convention.

The Innocence Project of Florida encourages institutional actors in the State of Florida to create broad - based criminal justice reform commissions to study wrongful convictions and advocate for changes in the system.

R (R) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester [2016] EWCA Civ 490, [2016] 1 WLR 4125 (Court of Appeal; currently on appeal to the Supreme Court) A challenge to the disclosure of information about acquittals on criminal records certificates, based on an allegation that it was incompatible with the presumption of innocence under Article 6 and the right to respect for private life under Article 8 of the Convention (currently on appeal to the Supreme Court).

«It is ironic that after serving time in the county jail and being threatened with a potential life sentence, Ray McCann pleaded no contest to a charge of perjury when, in fact, he had told the truth and the charge itself was based on police fabrications,» said Michigan Innocence Clinic Director David Moran.