Sentence examples for based on false testimony from inspiring English sources

It was brought by Thomas L. Goldstein, who served 24 years in prison for murder based on false testimony from a jailhouse informant.

On April 25, Virginia plans to execute Ivan Teleguz despite evidence that his conviction and death sentence were based on false testimony.

The newspaper also divulged that a number of articles it printed during the 80s and 90s on the use of sex slaves by Japanese personnel in military brothels during the Second World War were also based on false testimony.

The North Korean diplomat Kim Yong-ho, in a speech to the Geneva forum on Monday, again rejected the report as being based on false testimony and called for Darusman's resignation.

Prosecutorial Immunity In a second decision on Monday, the court unanimously ruled that a California man who had served 24 years in prison for murder based on false testimony from a jailhouse informant could not sue the two senior prosecutors who ran the Los Angeles County district attorney's office at the time of his trial.

Mr. Silverman also said in a telephone interview that he believed many of the charges against his client and the other commandos were based on false testimony from a former member of the Seals who was facing discharge for taking another serviceman's body armor.

Wood's death sentence, Tyler said, was based on "false and misleading" testimony from a psychiatrist who did not personally examine his client.

Most of the crucial testimony in the 1997-98 hearings that preceded the new law, contending abuses by I.R.S. agents, has proved to be unfounded, based on false or misleading testimony or disproved in subsequent court actions.

Yarrington's Houston-based attorney, Joel Androphy, said in a news conference this week in Mexico City that the allegations against Yarrington were bogus and based on "false witnesses and testimony" by people attempting to make deals with the prosecution.

The "experts," Vincent Rue, James Anderson, Geoffrey Keyes, and John Thorp, were paid a cumulative amount of $141,612 for their testimony based on false and discredited science.

The exonerations highlighted a number of problems with the judicial system, including wrongful convictions based on false confessions and erroneous eyewitness testimony, the Northwestern University School of Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions reported.