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In the first case, the defense sought smart, well-educated, middle- and upper-class jurors on the assumption that they would be less overwhelmed by the extraordinary amount of money being discussed and therefore less inclined to convict because of the "greed factor," as one lawyer termed it early in the trial.

She added that the ticket-fixing played a smaller role in her thinking, but said, "how can you trust such people?" The defendant, Stephen Lopresti, 60, would have been disbarred had he been convicted, because of previous convictions for driving while intoxicated.

"He didn't want her convicted because of her race or her politics," he said.

— In Texas, another exoneration of someone convicted because of bite-mark evidence.

During those years, he said, he met other convicts who told him they had been convicted because of false confessions.

"You had to convince the bench that maybe an innocent man was convicted because of the nature of the crime.

He was convicted because of unusual mobile phone activity, CCTV video and images from road-side cameras.

Tense and at times nasty, the series was dubbed by some as Catholics versus Convicts because of the numerous arrests of Miami players.

Despite mass demonstrations and accusations that he had been convicted because of his radicalism and despite an appeal to the Utah governor from Pres.

Noting that Mr. Graham had been convicted largely on the testimony of one witness, Mr. Marshall held a news conference with 11 people wrongly convicted because of erroneous witness testimony.

The Myanmar leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has said the two journalists were not convicted because of their work but because they broke the law.