Sentences with phrase «reform for the innocence»

Rebecca Brown, director of state policy reform for the Innocence Project, says the organization does what it can within this reality.

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Largely adopting provisions in a bill drafted in 2015 by the State Bar Association in collaboration with the Innocence Project and the District Attorneys» Association of New York, the budget agreement calls for both video recording of custodial interrogations of suspects in serious crimes and reforming procedures for eyewitness identification.

Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence.

The Innocence Project's mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.

At a press conference during the ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia, ACS President Bassam Z. Shakhashiri joined Innocence Project session speakers, who urged support for forensic science reform.

Most of the Innocence Network organizations are affiliated with universities, but they need donations to help pay for DNA tests, provide staffing for case intake and litigation, support reform initiatives at the local, state or national levels, and help educate the public.

The Innocence Project of Florida encourages institutional actors in the State of Florida to create broad - based criminal justice reform commissions to study wrongful convictions and advocate for changes in the system.

The Innocence Project's priorities for reforming the criminal justice system reflect the lessons that have been learned from DNA exonerations over the last 15 years.

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.