Sentences with phrase «investigating wrongful conviction»

The panel is aimed at investigating wrongful conviction claims by defendants who claim innocence based on either a factual matter, newly found evidence or other information.

Norman Siegel, former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, joins in calling for an independent commission to investigate wrongful convictions in Brooklyn.

The manner in which causes of wrongful convictions are studied and what recommendations are presented to eradicate them are largely dependent on the effectiveness of the review process that investigates wrongful convictions.

Not exact matches

Creating an independent counsel to investigate claims of wrongful convictions and alleged civil rights violations by law enforcement.

After reviewing 30 cases of potential wrongful imprisonment for murder from the tenure of his controversial predecessor Charles Hynes, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson's office has begun to investigate the former prosecutor's non-homicide felony convictions, too.

«It is the opinion of the CRU that this was done intentionally,» Hale said, referring to the unit in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office dedicated to investigating potential wrongful convictions.

The movie centers on a pair of brothers (Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey) who team - up to investigate the potential wrongful conviction...

And when they are detected it is always inadvertently, e.g., years later, the police are investigating something else whereby they come upon evidence revealing the fact of the wrongful conviction.

These categories omit the duty to the public to investigate competently so that charges are not laid against the wrong person, or that wrongful convictions are not obtained.

Young is also the director of the Innocence Project at Osgoode Hall, which teaches students how to investigate cases of wrongful conviction.

Despite the public awareness of wrongful conviction cases in Canada and the calls by advocates and organizations for an independent body to investigate such cases, the Minister of Justice has determined that «an independent body for conviction review [is] not needed in Canada.»

The key to exposing wrongful convictions is having the will and the resources to go out and investigate to see whether there is anything wrong and not simply sit back and say to the applicant, well, if you can show me something new I may react to it, but if you can't, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.

Under the 2002 amendments, applicants are still required to investigate their own wrongful convictions, with the onus falling upon them to identify the legal grounds for their application.

Unfortunately, wrongful conviction cases all - too - often involve sleeping lawyers, drunk lawyers, and lawyers who fail to investigate or call necessary experts — either due to lack of diligence, lack of experience, or lack of funds.

Dallas County DA Craig Watkins appeared with Stephen Colbert last night and explained his Conviction Integrity Unit and the need for prosecutors to investigate and work to prevent wrongful convictions.

The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, which investigates suspected wrongful convictions, began looking into Johnson's case in 2010.

By investigating and petitioning courts to reverse wrongful convictions, our Exoneration Project is dedicated to restoring justice.