Sentences with phrase «prison for their wrongful convictions»

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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).

The biggest wrongful - conviction payment, $ 26 million, went to Antonio Yarbough and Sharrif Wilson, who spent 21 years in prison for a 1992 triple murder.

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The documentary followed Strang's representation of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who initially served 18 years in prison for a wrongful sexual assault conviction.

Prior, unrelated Brady violations by attorneys in his office was insufficient to put district attorney on notice of need for further training, and need for training was not so obvious that district attorney's office was liable on failure - to - train theory when nondisclosure of blood - test evidence had resulted in defendant's wrongful conviction and in his spending 18 years in prison.

Mr. Erickson recently filed a wrongful conviction suit on behalf of one of the famed Dixmoor 5, who in 1992 was framed and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the brutal murder / rape of a young girl he didn't commit.

The evening also featured an Advocate for Justice Award for Benjamin Cardozo School of Law professor Ekow Yankah; the firsthand exoneration story of Everton Wagstaffe, who spent almost 23 years in prison fighting his wrongful conviction; and a special performance by the Exoneree Band, a rock group consisting of five musically talented exonerated men who write and perform songs about injustice and their own wrongful convictions.

While, in theory, habeas corpus petitions can be brought in any situation where someone is currently incarcerated and the conviction is believed to be wrongful, in practice, almost all successful habeas corpus petitions collaterally attack death penalty sentences, life in prison sentences, and term of years sentences for crimes that are so long that they are functionally life sentences.