Sentence examples for convicted on false testimony from inspiring English sources
But defense lawyers who were involved in those cases said the governor's proposal would make it harder to exonerate inmates convicted on false testimony, not easier.
Review of "Papillon" or "Butterfly" a best-seller by the incongruous underworld nickname of a former unimportant safeblower, Henri Charriere, convicted on false testimony (he said) of the murder of a Montmatre pimp and condemned to life imprisonment on the various penal isles of French Guiana and the South American coast.
By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, November 15 , 1969P. 200 Review of "Papillon" or "Butterfly" a best-seller by the incongruous underworld nickname of a former unimportant safeblower, Henri Charriere, convicted on false testimony (he said) of the murder of a Montmatre pimp and condemned to life imprisonment on the various penal isles of French Guiana and the South American coast.
A first step is to help public defenders' offices obtain police disciplinary data to better represent defendants who might otherwise be convicted on the false testimony of a police officer.
In a third case in recent months, a judge has ruled that federal prosecutors in Brooklyn relied on false testimony.
Dennis Fritz was arrested because he was the sidekick of a man charged with rape and murder; convicted by false testimony from a fellow inmate and an ambitious jailer, Fritz received a life sentence.
Then again, criminal kingpins are often convicted on the testimony of morally dubious underlings.
The former inmate, Thomas L. Goldstein, was convicted on the testimony of the aptly named Edward F. Fink.
"Bacanovic was convicted on the testimony of Stewart's assistant and his own assistant".
The men were convicted on the testimony of a single crack-addicted prostitute, who worked for the police as an informer.
And last week hundreds of people protested outside a Georgia prison as that state executed a man, Troy Davis, who was convicted on testimony that was later recanted.
