Sentence examples for error of justice from inspiring English sources

The modern legal system, with its lengthy appeals process and clemency boards, was widely assumed to protect the kind of "error of justice" that Mill feared.

For Mill, there was one counterargument that carried weight — "that if by an error of justice an innocent person is put to death, the mistake can never be corrected".

As Mill himself conceded, there is "one argument against capital punishment which I cannot deny to have weight: that if by an error of justice an innocent person is put to death, the mistake can never be corrected".

After all, Jackson had served 39 years in a Cuyahoga County prison for a murder he did not commit an egregious error of justice that amounts to the longest imprisonment prior to exoneration in US history.

A project designed to expose and fix the errors of the justice system stands accused of committing a few errors itself.

"The right to see your consul is not just a technicality, it is a way to avoid all kinds of errors or miscarriage of justice," Mr. Brody said.

The officer, Ronald Darabant of the 112th Precinct in Queens, appears to have made a crucial error in the pursuit of justice.

VI, § 4 1/2, of California's Constitution which provides that judgments should not be set aside or reversed unless the court is of the opinion that the error 'resulted in a miscarriage of justice.' 234 Cal.App.2d 587, 44 Cal.Rptr.

In conclusion, he emphasized, "It would be ERROR, and frankly, promoting miscarriage of justice, if the state were allowed to argue that to the jury".

To turn a criminal appeal into a quest for error no more promotes the ends of justice than to acquiesce in low standards of criminal prosecution.' Johnson v. United States, 318 U.S. 189, 202, 63 S.Ct.

What do I read to find it?" "I ended up thinking, of course there is a risk of human error," Justice Breyer continued.