Sentence examples for fundamental miscarriage from inspiring English sources
The agencies are divided over whether the convictions are simply legally defective or represent a fundamental miscarriage of justice.
Judge Bob Perkins of State District Court ruled that the inmate, Christopher Ochoa, had "suffered a fundamental miscarriage of justice".
Under a 1995 decision, Schlup v. Delo, inmates seeking federal court review in such a circumstance must pass through a procedural "gateway" by establishing that the federal court's failure to hear the case would be a "fundamental miscarriage of justice".
In 2012, the 11th Circuit concurred, declaring in its order, "We are not persuaded that we are faced with a fundamental miscarriage of justice.
Apart from the fundamental question about a possible miscarriage of justice, the case is freighted with extraordinary political sensitivity for both the Police Department and the district attorney's office.
Further to this, the government's new legal aid bill threatens to erode a safeguard described by appeal judges as "one of the most important and fundamental rights of a citizen" and introduced in response to a series of miscarriages of justice.
The Government plans to remove the "fundamental right" to free legal advice for people held in police custody – 27 years after it was introduced to stop miscarriages of justice.
One woman suffered a miscarriage.
