Sentence examples for avoid wrongful from inspiring English sources

One of my top goals as district attorney has been to avoid wrongful convictions.

But, disappointingly, the measure still leaves New York State without certain protections to avoid wrongful convictions.

He said that adding thousands of additional DNA samples would help avoid wrongful convictions by "directing criminal investigations toward actual perpetrators" and increasing the opportunity for those wrongfully convicted to prove their innocence.

Judge Thomas Miano of State Superior Court dismissed charges against Mr. Tillman, and said the case demonstrated the need for the police and prosecutors to take steps to avoid wrongful convictions.

One way to avoid wrongful convictions would be to hold the state responsible for proving beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was actually committed before being allowed to introduce evidence of guilt.

Rather, we can explain how persons are moved, say, to avoid wrongful actions "by the fact that people have reason to want to act in ways that could be justified to others, together with the fact that when a rational person recognizes something as a reason we do not need a further explanation of how he or she could be moved to act on it" (154).

This was thought by many to be an effort to avoid wrongful-death lawsuits.

Having a tool like an all-crimes DNA databank at our disposal would go a long way toward helping us achieve that all-important goal of avoiding wrongful convictions.

The new district attorney will have many promises to live up to, after a campaign in which the candidates said they could do things better on issues like prosecuting white-collar offenders, avoiding wrongful convictions and connecting with the community.

"There is no way to tell from these cases whether we are getting better at avoiding wrongful convictions in the first place," the report says.

The city said the settlement would avoid a federal wrongful death lawsuit and that taxpayer money would not be used to fund it.