Sentences with phrase «innocence in a murder case»

The story of a man who must prove his innocence in a murder case.

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If I couldn't be trusted to judge innocence or guilt in that litigation, what was the likelihood that I would be seated on a jury in a murder case?

The titular character, Vincent Gambini, is a fledgling lawyer from Brooklyn who finds himself completely in over his head as he tries to prove his nephew's innocence in a grisly murder case.

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

For Immediate ReleaseInnocence Project of Florida Moves to Preserve Evidence in Tompkins» Case Says DNA Testing Could Reveal that Man Scheduled for Execution is Innocent of Murder Today the Innocence Project of Florida (IPF) is filing a motion to preserve -LSB-...]

UIS Illinois Innocence Project client who spent 22 years in prison acquitted after new trial in DuPage Co. arson murder case

A judge this week dismissed a decades - old murder case and ordered the release of DeMarlo Berry, a Las Vegas man whose lengthy quest to prove his innocence culminated after prosecutors reviewed new evidence and identified a different suspect in the 1994 slaying of a Carl's Jr. restaurant manager.

The Oregon Innocence Project, of which I am legal director, has drawn criticism from Clackamas County District Attorney John Foote for its friend of the court brief highlighting circumstances that raise questions about the Frank Gable case («Oregon Innocence Project misses mark in notorious murder»).