Sentences with word «postconviction»

Additionally, three years were spent handling death penalty cases exclusively, on direct appeal and in postconviction proceedings.

In 2006, Florida required DNA evidence to be preserved for anyone who could petition for postconviction DNA testing (that would apply only to those convicted of felonies).

In addition, Newman has spawned a number of other postconviction challenges and the reversal of certain guilty pleas.

She has lectured at a number of Continuing Legal Education programs on issues involving search and seizure, probation and parole, use of peremptory challenges, postconviction relief, professionalism and ethics, and the independence of the judiciary.

In addition, postconviction proceedings impose a much higher standard of proof than do initial trials; courts are extremely loath to overturn jury verdicts.

Second, the authors fail to state that postconviction exonerations are as much the result of a subjective interpretation of evidence as the original convictions.