And after being resentenced, their access to resources that could help them prove a false conviction drops.
Ocumpo reveals that his brother, Hector, was sentenced to time in prison for a false conviction.
But the undercurrent of hatred persisted, culminating in the Dreyfus affair in 1894, with the trial and false conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, a French military officer of Jewish descent, which is often described as one of the most influential events in the modern history of French Jewry.
He testified in the case of the Guildford Four, for example, the high-profile false conviction of four people who were suspected of an IRA bombing.
"The Prosecution Rests, but I Can't," by John Thompson (Op-Ed, April 10), about the false conviction of Mr. Thompson for robbery and murder, was an eye-opener.
The article -- titled the "Rate of False Conviction of Criminal Defendants Who Are Sentenced to Death" -- was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
There were surely false convictions of those who insisted on their innocence, and there was a surprising number of acquittals of those who had probably been falsely accused in the first place.
Hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a cyberattack on the Thai police force, in retaliation for what they see as the false convictions of two men for the murders of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao.
He stood up stubbornly to appeal court judges, in the cases of the false convictions of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four, who refused to contemplate the "appalling vista" - as Lord Denning put it - of police perjury and violence and invented confessions.
A similar question is found in research on psychosis in schizophrenia: how do patients acquire delusional beliefs and false convictions of reality of hallucinatory perceptions?
