Sentences with phrase «wrongly convicted people»

DNA testing alone has exonerated 12 wrongly convicted people in Florida.

«Wrongful Conviction Day is not only important for wrongly convicted people, like myself, but for all people globally.

Yet society need only forego this one form of punishment in order to assure that it will not itself take an innocent life or prematurely cancel the possibility of the wrongly convicted person's experiencing vindication.

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.

Even assuming that Brown didn't do anything untoward, the sad reality is that innocent people often do pay for things they never did, and Brown losing a privilege barely compares to a wrongly convicted person spending any time in prison.

Many consider James Lockyer a saviour to any wrongly convicted person in Canada, points out one of our judges.

Not exact matches

But evident reliability can be deceptive: persons have been wrongly convicted of murder on the positive identification of eyewitnesses.

«While we believe the vast majority of prosecutors do a difficult and admirable job, we do know that some people are wrongly convicted at the hands of prosecutors who fail in their ethical responsibilities,» Cates added.

In any decent society where some premium is placed on human dignity, the accepted jurisprudential position is that, it is better for many suspects to escape unpunished than for one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

EVERY day, innocent people are wrongly convicted of crimes they did not commit, while real offenders are falsely acquitted.

It has been used to prove that suspects were involved in crimes and to free people who were wrongly convicted.

She's blackmailed into heading up the Conviction Integrity Unit, where her team investigates people who may have been wrongly convicted of a crime.

She and her team investigate cases where people may have been wrongly convicted.

Innocent people are wrongly convicted.

The risk is that innocent people across the UK are put through damaging and stressful prosecution proceedings and trials, or in the very worst cases wrongly convicted and imprisoned.

«No investigator wanted to admit to the unspeakable possibility that he had caused an innocent person to be wrongly convicted,» he says, «or a family denied their life savings.»

We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.

Such statutes severely «limit the ability of a person believed to be wrongly convicted to gain access to any evidence, let alone DNA, to aid in exonerations.»

Mr. Grabel has long fought for the rights of his clients and strongly believes in the rights of all people accused of a criminal offense, he is proud to support the Access to Justice Fund, The Innocence Project and Proving Innocence, a Michigan based organization fighting to free the wrongly convicted.

The Innocence Project is intimately familiar with the tremendous pain and challenges exonerated people encounter after release, and has developed a series of recommendations for states to compensate the wrongly convicted.

Many states do, however, have provisions for compensating people that have been wrongly convicted, or are looking into establishing such process.

IPNO merely seeks testing that could resolve the question of whether the person has been wrongly convicted.

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project has a four-fold mission to: (1) secure the exoneration, release from imprisonment, and restoration to society of persons who are innocent and have been wrongly convicted; (2) provide clinical training and experience to students in the fields of law, journalism, criminal justice, and forensic science; (3) collaborate with law enforcement agencies and the courts to address systemic causes of wrongful convictions; and (4) strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in Pennsylvania through public education and advocacy.

The Pennsylvania Innocence Project is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission includes securing the exoneration, release and restoration to society of persons who are actually innocent and have been wrongly convicted.

The Innocence Clinic believes there are other people who have been wrongly convicted on flawed shaken - baby evidence.»

We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation,

The Innocence Project of Texas (IPTX) is an organization dedicated to the mission of securing the release of people who are wrongly convicted in the state of Texas and educating the public about the causes and effects of wrongful convictions.

I think it's even braver to be brave when you don't have to be — to help a friend in prison who has been wrongly convicted, or to write what others won't admit, in case it might help other people.

People are wrongly convicted all the time.