Sentences with phrase «overturn wrongful convictions»

These are two able lawyers who have worked for years to overturn wrongful convictions and ensure that evidence, particularly in cases where young people are involved, is reliable.

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He also pushed his Conviction Review Unit to examine old cases to overturn wrongful convictions.

After Willingham was executed, the Innocence Project, a national nonprofit legal organization focused on overturning wrongful convictions, assembled a team of leading arson investigators, who concluded that none of the evidence for arson in the case was scientifically valid.

The Illinois Innocence Project celebrates its 15th anniversary this month as part of a nationwide network of such groups focused on overturning the wrongful convictions of people falsely imprisoned.

«It is a flagrant attempt to intimidate the Medill Innocence Project and other similar projects which have been so successful in overturning wrongful convictions,» Sarokin wrote of the subpoena.

It is the principle that vests appellate courts in Canada with the power to overturn a wrongful conviction and either substitute an acquittal or order a new trial.

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In the weeks since the series debuted, there has been an Internet firestorm that has included countless opinions on whether or not justice was truly served and whether Avery may have suffered the second wrongful conviction of his life (he previously spent 18 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction that was later overturned due to new DNA evidence).

Yes, with the large number of wrongful convictions being overturned in this country because of science, there were probably all sorts of Christians willing to let someone else do the punishment they rightly deserved while still on this earth, why not dump it all on jesus when you die as well.

He put Eric Gonzalez in charge of setting up the unit, which to date has overturned 22 wrongful convictions, with another 100 cases under review.

According to a Department of Justice study, non-DNA forensic tests aided the prosecution in roughly two - thirds of 28 wrongful convictions that were later overturned based on DNA evidence.

That's not to say touch evidence shouldn't be used to help solve crimes, but jurors need to be presented with information about its limitations or wrongful convictions may ensue, while other convictions may fail or be overturned on appeal.

The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded 2,211 wrongful convictions that were eventually overturned because of DNA or other evidence.

Almost exactly 10 years ago, the Innocence Project informed the legal community that «in 66 of the 216 wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing, cross-racial eyewitness identification was used as evidence to convict an innocent defendant.»

Since its creation in 1989, the National Registry of Exonerations has recorded 2,182 wrongful convictions that were eventually overturned because of DNA or other evidence showing the individual did not commit the crime.

The most common element in all wrongful convictions later overturned by DNA evidence has been eyewitness misidentification.

Her «conviction» in her brother's innocence leads to her returning to school — and eventually law school — to help overturn her brother's wrongful conviction through DNA evidence (with the help of Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project.

It was found that this sergeant's corruption was responsible for numerous wrongful convictions and those were subsequently overturned last year with more cases expected to surface as time goes on.

The National Registry of Exonerations identifies 10 wrongful convictions overturned here in Oregon out of more than 1,700 nationwide.