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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).
On August 19, three convicted murderers in West Memphis, Arkansas, had their convictions, under which they had served 18 years, thrown out -- only to plead guilty to murder, be sentenced to time served and be released from jail, all the while telling the judge and the rest of the world that they were innocent.
The lawyer, Charles A. Flowers, had asked the State Court of Criminal Appeals to vacate the convictions under case law that allows it when a convict dies while his appeal is pending.
Prosecutions and convictions under the Torture Convention have been rare.
He was picking up regular convictions under antiquated vagrancy laws.
"There has been a huge run-up in convictions under various federal laws".
Even misdemeanor convictions under environmental laws could produce stunningly large fines under general federal criminal statutes, Mr. Uhlmann added.
No aliens were deported, but there were 25 prosecutions, resulting in 10 convictions, under the Sedition Act.
It has detained 44 suspects, and has already found seven men guilty: the first genocide convictions under international law.
Prosecutors there had to prove little to secure lengthy convictions under the anti-racketeering act known as RICO.
Page A8 CONVICTION UNDER REVIEW President Dmitri A. Medvedev ordered Russia's prosecutor general to verify the legality of the conviction of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former billionaire whose imprisonment has been widely condemned as politically motivated.
