Sentence examples for convicted on the basis from inspiring English sources

All but one were convicted on the basis of incorrect eyewitness testimony.

But what we do know now is that Adnan was convicted on the basis of a case that the state constructed from one unreliable supposed eyewitness.

The Supreme Court of South Carolina overturned her conviction in 2008, ruling that McKnight had received inadequate counsel and was convicted on the basis of "outdated" assumptions about the harms of prenatal exposure to cocaine.

She is now being convicted on the basis of her "inconsistencies".

In most of these cases, the individuals had been convicted on the basis of eyewitness testimony.

Most recently, two condemned men convicted on the basis of confessions were exonerated by DNA evidence.

Yet it is just such subjects, where today's conventional wisdom is tomorrow's discredited theory, that juries should treat "experts" with the greatest scepticism, and should be most unwilling to convict on the basis of their evidence alone.

The jurors in the trial of Lynne F. Stewart, a lawyer accused of aiding terrorism, began to deliberate yesterday, after the judge cautioned that they could not convict on the basis of her political views.

Too many fundamental principles have been eroded over the past 15 years and it is extremely important that we do not convict on the basis of rumour or belief.

As a state lawmaker, Mr. Obama supported changes to the death penalty, including a bill that let judges reject a death sentence for someone convicted on the sole basis of an informant's testimony.

Robert Napper, a convicted rapist who was already serving a sentence in Broadmoor, was convicted last year on the basis of new DNA evidence.