Sentences with phrase «preventing wrongful convictions»

If their procedures and policies are not adequate for preventing wrongful convictions, urge decision - makers to change them.

As an innocence project, we focus not only on reversing wrongful convictions, but also on preventing wrongful convictions in the first place.

The Innocence Project and other advocates will make a strong push during the final three weeks of the legislative session to get New York lawmakers to act to prevent wrongful convictions.

«This footage can be critical in preventing a wrongful conviction or protecting investigators from false accusations.

In November, Janet DiFiore — Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals — announced the new rules in an effort to prevent wrongful convictions.

Now, she wants to create a Prosecutorial Integrity Bureau to audit cases, take complaints, and prevent wrongful convictions.

But it would weaken the ability to prevent wrongful convictions by removing an opportunity to test the reliability of the Crown prosecutor's evidence.

[3] In defending a client zealously, a criminal defence attorney plays an important role in preventing the wrongful conviction of the innocent.

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.

Barry Scheck, founder of the Innocence Project, is not convinced that the bill truly demonstrates an effort to prevent wrongful convictions.

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project works to reform the criminal justice system to prevent wrongful convictions of the innocent.

In Louisiana and Mississippi, the two states with the highest incarceration rates in the world, Innocence Project New Orleans frees innocent prisoners, exposes injustice and prevents wrongful convictions.

The reforms that can address and prevent wrongful convictions include:

In the area of criminal law, the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) has a mandate to identify, advocate for, and exonerate individuals who have been convicted of a crime they did not commit and to prevent wrongful convictions through legal education and reform.

While exonerations make for good headlines, our painstaking work to promote reforms that will prevent wrongful convictions in the first place is just as important as our efforts to champion individuals.

Professor Keith Findley, who is co-director of both the Wisconsin Innocence Project and the Criminal Appeals Project in the Frank J. Remington Center, published an op - ed titled «They Didn't Do the Crime, But They Did the Time: How to Better Prevent Wrongful Convictions,» in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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The Buffalo News: «It took far too long, given the undisputed, crying need, but tucked away in the New York State budget are some powerful criminal justice reforms aimed at preventing the compound tragedies of wrongful conviction.

Today there is a higher level of awareness than ever before among Canadian police and prosecutors about the causes of wrongful convictions and what can be done to prevent them,» reads the update.

It is a tragedy: the wrongful conviction of an innocent man that could have been prevented if prosecutors had shared exculpatory evidence with his defense attorneys during pretrial discovery.

We know how difficult correcting wrongful convictions is, which is why we also work to prevent them in the first place.

The Project works to educate all stakeholders in the criminal justice system on the reasons for wrongful convictions, and to promote policies that will prevent such tragedies from occurring.

To wrap up this series on wrongful convictions, there are a number of ways that future damages can be avoided by preventing false confessions from happening in the future.

By adding a mention of us in your signature line, you will encourage your friends and families to get better informed on the causes of wrongful conviction and what can be done to prevent them every time you send an email.

We also help enact laws that prevent and make it easier to correct wrongful convictions.

We hope the following narratives will inform readings of the faults in our current Criminal Justice system and inspire a want for change to prevent future wrongful convictions.

In November 2008, David Meier will co-chair a two - day educational symposium on «Wrongful Convictions: Preventing and Litigating» at Suffolk Law School.

Massachusetts Wrongful Conviction Day October 2, 11:00 - 2:00 State House, The Great Hall, Boston Please join the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the CPCS Innocence Program, the New England Innocence Project, the Harvard Criminal Justice Policy Program, and the Boston College Innocence Program to find out why Wrongful Convictions happen, how they can be prevented, and how to better assist exonerees.

Monday October 2, ASU Law School Beus Center for Law & Society 5th Floor, Room 544 5:30 — 7:30 pm: Program 7:30 — 8:30 pm: Refreshments Hear from various members of the criminal justice community on wrongful convictions, how they occur, and what we can do to help prevent them from happening.

Everyone is impacted by wrongful convictions, but some individuals and groups aren't yet involved in preventing injustice.

Redress the underlying causes of wrongful convictions and reform the criminal justice system to prevent such convictions from occurring

Kentucky has had at least 12 wrongful convictions in the past three decades, yet has taken no meaningful steps to prevent other innocent people from suffering the same fate as Mr. Hardin and Mr. Clark.»

The proposed reforms Grewal has decided to pursue include creating a conviction review unit to examine wrongful conviction claims and help prevent innocent people Read more here

Working to rectify those injustices and prevent further wrongful convictions helps assure the integrity of our criminal justice system.