Sentences with phrase «wrongful conviction work»
The wrongful conviction work that Klinkosum conducted has not only secured the freedom of individuals wrongfully detained but has also led to systemic changes in North Carolina.
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He has also done much work on injustice issues, including campaigning against the wrongful conviction of the Guildford Four.
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.
«He worked to reverse wrongful convictions and helped develop programs to target the most dangerous offenders in Brooklyn to drive down violent crime, while still diverting low - level offenders — particularly young people — from the criminal justice system.»
In considering topics of political immediacy — wrongful conviction, heredity, state secrecy, and the porosity of international borders, to name just a few — she addresses the rhetorical nature of the image within her chosen topic, producing works that are as much about the radical potential of images as they are about their limits.
(6) the resulting need for a right of the accused to a full preliminary inquiry to test the sources of evidence, instead of governments working towards its abolition, which would remove an important safeguard against wrongful convictions;
(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;
IPTX met with the new Dallas County District Attorney to discuss the causes of wrongful conviction and the work of the District Attorney to ensure that innocent people are not in prison.
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.
Founding and facilitating the Criminal Attorney Accountability Working Group to address frequent lapses in performance, professionalism and ethical standards amongst practicing criminal lawyers on both sides of the profession that cause wrongful convictions.
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.
David Meier, formerly the Chief of Homicide in the Suffolk County (Boston) District Attorney's Office, has been nationally recognized for his work in the area of wrongful convictions and his commitment to the rights of crime victims and their families.
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project eagerly awaits the publication of the Committee on Wrongful Convictions report, and anticipates working with all of the members of the criminal justice community in ensuring that measures are put into place that will advance the interest of freeing the innocent and convicting the guilty.
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.
Her position with the IIP involves representing individuals who were wrongfully convicted, leading the policy reform initiative to reduce wrongful convictions, training police cadets on the causes of wrongful convictions at the University of Illinois Police Training Institute, and working with UIS undergraduate and graduate students and law school students externs from other Illinois universities participating with the Project.
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.
Wrongful Conviction Day began as an effort of the Innocence Network, an affiliation of organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted, working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions, and supporting the exonerated after they arWrongful Conviction Day began as an effort of the Innocence Network, an affiliation of organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted, working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions, and supporting the exonerated after they arwrongful convictions, and supporting the exonerated after they are freed.
The Innocence Network is an affiliation of organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted, working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions, and supporting the exonerated after they are freed.
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.
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project works to reform the criminal justice system to prevent wrongful convictions of the innocent.
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.
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».
The Jomati Foundation has provided multiyear funding to the University of Southampton's Innocence Project which centres upon the study of wrongful criminal convictions and provides undergraduate students with a unique opportunity to participate in real life pro bono legal work.
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.
While wrongful conviction is hardly a unique or unheard of phenomenon, Tammy is one of the first mothers I have worked alongside who has not one, but two children living through and surviving a wrongful incarceration.
Newman is a member of the board of the international Innocence Network, an affiliation of more than sixty - five organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove their innocence and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions.
Working to rectify those injustices and prevent further wrongful convictions helps assure the integrity of our criminal justice system.
What is needed is a rallying point — someone that those of us interested in this wrongful conviction can email, to get together and work out what to do.