Sentences with phrase «on actual innocence»

She has also served as president of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, a nonprofit organization she helped found, which is dedicated to assisting wrongly convicted North Carolina inmates obtain relief, and a member of the North Carolina Chief Justice's Criminal Justice Study Commission (formerly the Commission on Actual Innocence), the North Carolina Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, and the North Carolina Bar Association Administration of Justice Committee.

Copies of «Ghost of the Innocent Man» about exoneree Willie Grimes signed by the author given away on http://www.nccai.org/ and on North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence's social media.

The court therefore found it unnecessary to address whether it was impermissible to impose a «due diligence» requirement on an actual innocence claim.

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.

Not exact matches

Drama based on actual interrogation tapes shows how man claiming innocence was pushed to confess

Gleick has thus far confessed only to obtaining actual documents through impersonation (though he has not yet been charged with wire fraud), but has claimed innocence on the forgery allegation.

Gleick has thus far confessed only to the crime of fraudulently obtaining actual documents (though he has not been charged yet), but has claimed innocence on the forgery.

Last but hardly least, the case could set the stage for a decision on an issue never squarely decided by the court — whether the Constitution forbids the execution of a defendant who can demonstrate «actual innocence.»

When evidence of actual innocence is uncovered later on, courts may find technicalities to refuse to consider it; to refuse to consider the truth that a mistake was made.

Separate research by the Innocence Project into 23 DNA exonerations in New York found that police had identified the actual perpetrators in 10 cases, nine of whom had gone on to commit new crimes while wrongfully convicted defendants sat in prison.

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.

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.

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.

Particularly interested in applications from Spanish - speaking inmates who are in an Illinois prison, who are claiming actual innocence, and who have more than 8 years still to serve on their sentence

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

On April 7, 2016, the Supreme Court of Virginia granted Keith Harward's Writ of Actual Innocence, and the following day he was released from prison a free man.

Actual innocence — false allegations based on a family or domestic conflict, or another person's anger, jealousy, or desire for revenge;

Through this investigation, our skilled criminal defense attorneys will attempt to uncover information that helps to prove your innocence and / or cast doubt on your actual guilt.

Further, once we have agreed to work on a case, we reserve the right to withdraw for any reason, including an inability to prove a claim of actual innocence

Raj Rajaratnam asked the Second Circuit on Monday to toss five of 14 insider - trading counts for which he is serving an 11 - year sentence, but a judge at oral arguments said his latest bid for a shorter prison term did not look like something a prisoner who has exhausted his direct appeal would argue in support of a finding of «actual innocence.»

Beyond assisting our clients with their claims of actual innocence in court, we also strive to shed light on the problems in the criminal legal system that allow innocent people to be convicted of crimes they did not commit by advocating for greater accountability in the justice system.

They just focus more and more on the innocent guy, the actual offender remains free to strike again, and the Innocence Project gets another case.