José Medellín, convicted for his part in the rape and murder of two teenage girls, was one of around 50 Mexicans on death row in the United States whom the International Court of Justice ruled should have their convictions reviewed as they were denied access to consular officials after their arrest.A lot of hot airAmerica's congressmen began their summer recess amid a row over energy policy.
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And we also outlined reforms aimed at expediting the post-conviction review and clemency processes.
The Conviction Review Unit has been the most profound reform that Thompson has implemented in his year as district attorney.
A subcommittee of the Conviction Review Bureau will assess the office's practices on settlement negotiations case by case, said Danny Kanner, a spokesman for Mr. Schneiderman.
A Blow to Death Row Inmates Since 1995, the state has appointed all death row inmates' lawyers for post-conviction review.
Bonus got a message from Mark Hale, the head of the D.A.'s Conviction Review Unit, asking him to come into the office — and to bring Martin's case file, which Bonus had obtained from Martin's former attorney.
The study looked at all three possible stages of appeal -- direct appeal to a state's highest court, what is known as post-conviction review, usually by the original trial judge, and habeas corpus review, under which convictions in state courts are reviewed for error in federal courts.
The Conviction Review Bureau represents the first statewide initiative by a law enforcement agency to address potential wrongful convictions, at a time when many in the state's criminal justice system, including the chief judge, have been calling for changes like the videotaping of police interrogations and the use of new practices for eyewitnesses' identifications.
Besides lacking these offices, which pay lawyers a salary to specialize in defending the poor, Texas, unlike Illinois and most other states, also has no office that specializes in representing those sentenced to death in the later stages of appeal, a process called post-conviction review.
