Sentence examples for based on false confessions from inspiring English sources

Twenty-seven people were exonerated for convictions based on false confessions in 2015, another record.

Campaign groups say torture and mistreatment is widespread in Egyptian prisons, and many convictions are based on false confessions.

There is no way to guess how many convictions in the past were based on false confessions.

Meanwhile, groups like the Center on Wrongful Convictions and the Innocence Project were publishing statistics on wrongful convictions and found that a considerable proportion were based on false confessions.

Second, few convictions based on false confessions are cleared by exoneration.

Moreover, throughout the country but especially in the South (think Tulia, TX), we've seen proof of police and prosecutorial incompetence and misconduct -- evidence planted or tampered with, confessions coerced, lies told in reports and on the stand, convictions based on false statements of jailhouse snitches.

"Everything was based on false data".

"Economic growth was partly based on false foundations.

But this is an unproductive agenda based on false premises.

Brodeur's reasoning was not based on false modesty.

But Mr. Tankleff said the statement was based on a false confession wrung out of a distraught, confused boy.