Sentence examples for convicted persons from inspiring English sources

He sponsored or co-sponsored several bills related to criminal justice reform, notably, the innocence justice act of 2010 (an update of the 2009 bill), which grants convicted persons the right to challenge their convictions under the law if they can demonstrate a reasonable possibility that they are innocent (S6234).

The CRU, designed to identify and exonerate wrongfully convicted persons, quickly became regarded as the model conviction integrity program in the nation.

"Countless other wrongfully convicted persons do not have such support," she wrote on Friday.

They were mandated not only to capture criminals but also to inflict corporal punishment on convicted persons.

"The prime minister feels the Presidency Council has no power to reduce the sentence or give any amnesty to the convicted persons, so it is not necessary for them to approve this verdict," Mr. Dabbagh said.

"It is perhaps time to rethink the doctrines of immunity that allow prosecutors to carelessly indict citizens," said Adele Bernhard, an associate professor of law at Pace Law School, who has analyzed the compensation of unjustly convicted persons.

Under India's laws a convicted person cannot stand for election unless the conviction is stayed.

The lawyers' bible, Blackstone's Criminal Practice, points out modern custom is to grant pardons after conviction and sentence when it becomes tolerably plain the convicted person was innocent.

The best evidence that a conviction is unsafe is fresh evidence throwing doubt on the convicted person's factual guilt.

A21 Thousands of False Convictions A study of 328 criminal cases over the last 15 years in which the convicted person was exonerated suggests that thousands of people in prison have been falsely convicted.

Typically, this clemency is shown through a pardon, which forgives a person's conviction and restores his or her civil liberties, or commutation, in which a convicted person's sentence is abbreviated or vacated.