"We're looking at everything where biological evidence might have played a role prior to 1992, because that's when we started using DNA testing as part of our conviction process," she said.
GENEVA — The United Nations human rights office expressed its "deep dismay" on Friday over Saudi Arabia's execution of a young Sri Lankan housemaid accused of killing a child, a sentence carried out despite concerns about flaws in the conviction process and numerous international appeals for clemency.
In a series of cases, the courts weighed the question of whether non-record evidence — that is, evidence that had never been presented to the jury, even in the penalty phase — could be brought in as basis for relief in the post-conviction process.
"You've got to win the lottery and get three good lawyers in a row," O'Brien said of the trial, appellate, and post-conviction process.
According to the statement, the new chapter in the "Making a Murderer" story will take inspiration from Wisconsinite Steven Avery's post-conviction process, exploring how individuals involved in the case have been impacted.
The influence of race in who is prosecuted for the death penalty and who is not, racial bias in sentencing, unfair jury selection processes, and appeal and post-conviction processes prone to irreversible error result in a death penalty system that disproportionately selects brothers and sisters of color and those who have killed white victims.
For everyone connected with Machynlleth, the experience has been shattering, but with Mark Bridger's conviction, the process of healing can begin.
When the Bush Justice Department obtained these convictions, the process was celebrated by some of the same people now criticizing Holder.
In a statement, Legg Mason said, "We continue to believe in Private Capital management's disciplined, high-conviction investment process".
(On Tuesday, State Assemblyman Rob Bonta of Oakland proposed a law that would make the pot-conviction expungement process automatic, putting responsibility directly on the court system rather than individuals, as the LA Times reported).
Rather, it will depend upon a factor largely outside an inmate's control, and wholly divorced from the penological purposes the State sought to achieve by sentencing him to death in the first instance: how quickly the inmate proceeds through the state's dysfunctional post-conviction review process".
