Sentence examples for an error of justice from inspiring English sources

For Mill, there was one counterargument that carried weight — "that if by an error of justice an innocent person is put to death, the mistake can never be corrected".

As Mill himself conceded, there is "one argument against capital punishment which I cannot deny to have weight: that if by an error of justice an innocent person is put to death, the mistake can never be corrected".

After all, Jackson had served 39 years in a Cuyahoga County prison for a murder he did not commit an egregious error of justice that amounts to the longest imprisonment prior to exoneration in US history.

In a unanimous decision, the three judges decided that the appeal should be allowed (more specifically, that leave to appeal should be granted and the appeal heard and allowed instanter – at once), on the basis that the 8 March 2003 interview was not voluntary and so was inadmissible, and by admitting it the trial judge had made an error of law resulting in a miscarriage of justice.

The modern legal system, with its lengthy appeals process and clemency boards, was widely assumed to protect the kind of "error of justice" that Mill feared.

Lord Justice Stuart-Smith concluded the evidence did not add anything significant and while statements should not have been edited, this was simply an "error of judgement".

That was probably an error of omission.

That is an error of about 30%!

It is an act of justice.

A project designed to expose and fix the errors of the justice system stands accused of committing a few errors itself.

They said that this "error undermined the fairness of the proceedings and resulted in a miscarriage of justice".