Sentences with phrase «wrongful incarceration»
"Wrongful incarceration" refers to the unjust or unfair imprisonment of a person, where they are wrongly accused, convicted, and sentenced for a crime they did not commit. Full definition
Innocent Man Walks Free After Fourteen Years of Wrongful Incarceration Prosecutors drop murder and attempted rape charges against Chad Heins after DNA testing on a trifecta of evidence found on the victim proves that an unknown man committed these crimes -LSB-...]
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This is a civil rights case for wrongful incarceration against a large U.S. municipality and various police officers.
It is very hard to be released from prison after decades spent struggling to survive wrongful incarceration only to encounter the very real struggle of re-entry into a society that offers very little in the way of rehabilitative or social services.
I can't stop raving about An American Marriage by Tayari Jones because that novel tackles the lasting ramifications of wrongful incarceration on families without preaching to the reader.
Adventure Time progresses fairly predictably; each new power opens the way to the next dungeon, the climate changes with each new area, and most of your interactions with other characters are in the form of hilarious fetch quests (rescuing a newborn baby from wrongful incarceration was a personal favorite).
Innocent Man Accepts Compensation For Wrongful Incarceration Leroy McGee Holds Press Conference; Vows to Fight for Reform of State Compensation Law Ft. Lauderdale, Florida — On Tuesday February 16, 2010, Leroy McGee will hold a press conference to accept $ 179,000 in compensation -LSB-...]
Advocate for necessary criminal justice reform to avoid wrongful incarcerations in the future.
«Nassau County has spent millions on attorneys fighting this lawsuit while Mr. Restivo and Mr. Halstead — despite 18 years of wrongful incarceration and over 10 years of litigation — have yet to receive a nickel from Nassau County.
Oftentimes exonerations are an effort by the courts to pick the lesser of two possible evils, the worse being wrongful incarceration.
Sheridan's film, covering the wrongful incarceration of Irish citizens by the British government looking for IRA bombing scapegoats, hasn't aged particularly well, with Sheridan and screenwriter Terry George's displaying much of the dull righteousness that plagues George's own films («Hotel Rwanda,» «Reservation Road»).
What makes the film Crown Heights, which is the latest cinematic retelling of the true story of the wrongful incarceration of a Black man in the United States; difficult to watch... is that it wasn't difficult to watch at all.
No matter what gets thrown in his direction — be it wrongful incarceration, dastardly adversaries or just plain mean words — Paddington finds a way through with his sense of self intact by holding tight to a deceptively simple philosophy.
In those three years with the firm, T.C. litigated cases throughout Pennsylvania, and he drafted the PCRA petition and worked on the team that freed James Hugney after 35 years of wrongful incarceration.
Congress and President Bush have recommended that this amount be set at $ 50,000 per year of wrongful incarceration.
Compensate exonerated people immediately after release with a fixed sum or a range of recovery for each year of wrongful incarceration.
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IPF has secured the release and exoneration of a number of innocent individuals from Florida's prisons, including achieving the exoneration of James Bain, whose 35 years of wrongful incarceration is longer than that of any DNA exoneree in the United States.
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This important class action case involved the wrongful incarceration of over 40,000 Wichita residents for failing to pay traffic and misdemeanor fines.
CRYSTAL WEIMER TO BE RELEASED AFTER 11 YEARS WRONGFUL INCARCERATION: EXPERT FROM 2006 TRIAL NOW CALLS HIS TESTIMONY «JUNK SCIENCE» Fayette County Courthouse — Uniontown, PA UNIONTOWN, PA: On Thursday October 1, -LSB-...]
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.
Lord Rodger disagreed with the set off argument: justice, reasonableness and public policy dictated that no set off should be made for savings to the prisoners during imprisonment because they were made, not after the wrong had been inflicted, but as a necessary part of the wrongful incarceration.