Sentence examples for conviction cases from inspiring English sources

By the standards of most wrongful conviction cases, he got out quickly.

"This case, like the overwhelming number of wrongful convictions, does not have the advantage of DNA," said Scott Christianson, the author of "Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases".

From 1976 to 2011, payouts from 85 Illinois wrongful conviction cases, 55 of which were from Chicago, cost state taxpayers $214m.

In a letter to fellow lawyers, Mr. Glasheen said his firm "spent thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars advancing this group of wrongful conviction cases".

The Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice helped track a crucial witness in one of the wrongful conviction cases lately bedeviling the office of the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles Hynes.

There is no way to track precisely how many lawsuits have accused prosecutors of misconduct in wrongful conviction cases, but these sorts of complaints tend to name the police as defendants because it is easier to litigate against them, according to Joel Rudin, a lawyer for Mr. Bellamy.

Mr. Kuby said the settlement was the fourth largest in a wrongful conviction case in the state.

"To obtain a conviction, case law establishes that the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt the legal category to which the substance being used belonged.

Prosecutorial intransigence, a galling inability to acknowledge that initial judgments were incorrect, is the hallmark of almost every wrongful conviction case I am familiar with.

First, nothing prevents a particularist from being of firm conviction case by case; an unbudgeable conviction need not be founded on principle, but simply on the nature of the case.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, which is a wrongful conviction case about prosecutorial immunity.