Sentence examples for erroneously convicted from inspiring English sources

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According to Dworkin (1981), moral harm arises as an objective moral fact when a person is erroneously convicted of a crime.

One in 25 criminal defendants who has been handed a death sentence in the United States has likely been erroneously convicted.

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The new regulations were issued weeks after the authorities conceded that the confession used to erroneously convict a farmer for a murder was based on torture.

Federal Appeal In a decision more surprising for its vote than for its outcome, the court ruled that the federal appeals court in St . Louishad erroneously barred a convicted murderer from challenging his conviction in a federal petition for habeas corpus.

Mrs. Sarkozy traveled to Libya last month as a presidential emissary, arriving at a critical time in the European Union's efforts to win the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted — experts say erroneously — of infecting Libyan children with H.I.V.

In the months after his arrest, prosecutors had filed the additional charge of tax evasion, and Mr. Richman said Mr. Adler was growing increasingly concerned about his reputation, blanching at a local newspaper headline last month that erroneously reported him as having been convicted.

A film review on Thursday about the documentary "The Central Park Five," which looks at the case of five teenagers who were convicted of attacking a jogger in Central Park in 1989 and later exonerated, erroneously included Crown Heights among the battlegrounds of New York in the 1980s depicted in the film.

But the Pulitzer Board's decision may prove controversial given that Leonnig erroneously described a security guard who rode in an elevator with President Barack Obama as a convicted "felon" in one of the articles submitted.

Secretary Fall, whom Mr. McCartney erroneously credits as the inspiration for the term "fall guy," became the first cabinet member to be convicted of a felony and died in disgrace.

An article on Page 34 of The Times Magazine today about Stanley Williams, a convicted murderer who has written books and spoken from his jail cell about the perils of gang membership, refers erroneously to an anti-violence advertising campaign that uses him as spokesman.

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