Sentences with phrase «potential false convictions»
October 3, 2014 — «A new extracurricular pro bono effort at the University of Virginia School of Law is giving students hands - on experience investigating potential false convictions in the state's criminal justice system and supporting the work of the school's Innocence Project Clinic.
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In its quest to reduce the incidence of rape, to prosecute rapists to conviction and to decrease the frequency of false complaints, we would suggest that the government ought to direct its efforts to the following goals: cents educating potential victims of sexual assault on the adoption of risk - avoidance strategies;
The government's avowed determination to eradicate myths about supposedly true victim behaviour, in spite of there being no UK research evidence of a negative impact by such myths on the conviction rate, makes a stark contrast with their apparent insouciance about the potentially negative impact on the conviction rate as a cumulative result of potential jurors reading lurid media accounts of the exposure of false rape claims.