Sentences with phrase «wrongful conviction cases work»

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The district attorney's office has a wrongful conviction unit working on botched cases, but Adams said that apart from individual cases there hasn't been a full accounting of what went wrong and who was responsible.

Further, the Commission's work, insofar as it uncovers cases of wrongful conviction, would save considerable public funds that would otherwise be spent in the continued imprisonment of the wrongly convicted person.

Klinkosum's work on wrongful conviction cases continues to inform his private practice.

Prior to her work at MAIP, she served as a law clerk to Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and was the case coordinator at the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Northwestern University School of Law.

These are two able lawyers who have worked for years to overturn wrongful convictions and ensure that evidence, particularly in cases where young people are involved, is reliable.

Naughton, explaining his reasons for pulling the plug on INUK, said that it was «no longer acceptable that hundreds of students around the country can say on their CVs that they are working with an INUK innocence project when they know next to nothing about INUK or how to work on an alleged wrongful conviction cases».

For those of us who do innocence work, we see case after case where prosecutors presented with evidence of a wrongful conviction resist that evidence.