Sentences with phrase «for false conviction»

Focusing on the relatively simple matter of guilt or innocence; that is simple when compared with sentencing or damages, it is estimated that the error rate for false conviction is about 6 %.

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If not, there's no basis for conviction, kind of like placing doctors on trial for selling «false hope», of which there's no such thing.

Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage.

GAFCON said while the Primates» Meeting has been portrayed as «good disagreement» over issues of sexuality, and that the theological convictions underlying the different positions can be set aside for the sake of institutional unity, this was false.

the insurance is a product on which you pay for if that product does not meet what they promised it is false advertising and a crime if such violation is with intent to defraud or mislead, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than six month.

«But the government should not penalize law - abiding people, especially those who are American citizens, simply for holding their religious convictions, however consistent or inconsistent, true or false, those convictions are.»

While calling for the Senator to «come clean,» Erie County Republican Committee Chairman Nick Langworthy reminded the public of Panepinto's 2001 misdemeanor election fraud conviction for collecting false signatures on nominating petitions.

Tucked into the new state budget are reforms that court officials have championed for years to reduce two causes of wrongful convictions — false confessions and mistaken identifications.

Set on campus, Stone's novel features Maud, smart, beautiful, and brimming with passion for her convictions and her married professor; the world Stone creates here is full of ominous foreboding and populated by characters familiar to readers of his novels: lost souls who have lost their faith and others with false faith.

She declares that people globally can not afford to be politically passive or base their convictions on false faith, but rather question «hope» and provoke for the future that they desire.

Tragically, these false - positives were the basis for numerous criminal charges and, ultimately, convictions.

Second, the Act contains AMPs for willful false statements (a full mens rea AMP provision) and for summary conviction and indictable offences for flagrant non-compliance.

The problem is that if every overturning of a conviction required the courts to additionally declare the actual innocence of the accused, then (1) the courts would be required to make patently false statements (when actual guilt is clear, but the path to conviction was improper) which would be bad, and (2) the negative consequences of over-applying such a requirement for exoneration would no doubt lead to a serious decrease in the probability of any conviction being overturned on procedural grounds.

The Blog of the Legal Times (BLT) reports that Scooter Libby was sentenced to 30 months of jail time for his March 2007 conviction by a federal jury on four counts of false statements and obstruction of justice.

As reported in the written decision of the Law Society Hearing Panel (which decision is under appeal by the applicant), the applicant threatened to sue the other board members for defamation after he was removed as President of the condo corporation and a notice of his removal was posted; circulated a letter (under a false name) on some floors within the building that falsely stated that some of the board members had previously gone bankrupt, had criminal convictions and were accepting bribes and free meals from the developer of the condominium to settle deficiencies with the developer; made a derogatory remark about some of the residents based on their ethnicity; threatened to report some of the directors to US / Canada border officials, falsely alleging that they were drug smugglers; threatened both the corporation's property manager and security services firm that their contracts with the condo corporation would be in jeopardy if they did not provide a character letter to the applicant.

It is an offence under the federal Criminal Code for anyone to knowingly make or use a false document with the intent it be acted on as genuine and the offence is punishable, on conviction, by a maximum of 10 years imprisonment.

Every person who makes an assertion of fact in a statement or entry in a document or form for use under this Act knowing that the assertion is false is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not more than $ 2,000.

Brougham had obtained employment with Van Colle after providing a false CV, had operated under several aliases, and had convictions for common assault in 1993 and for theft of a vehicle in 2000.

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.

Court records show someone with the same name and birthdate as Vasquez spent more than four years in prison for two felony convictions — for making false statements when obtaining unemployment benefits and attempted armed robbery — before starting work as an Uber driver.