Sentence examples for in jail based on from inspiring English sources
But ensuring that no one is held in jail based on poverty would, in many respects, necessitate a complete reordering of criminal justice.
Mr. Conte spent four months in jail based on evidence Mr. Novitzky gathered.
However, it remains tragic that Mr. Warner spent so many years in jail based on erroneous testimony".
He was sentenced to 20 years in jail based on the testimony of a single 17-year-old eyewitness, a cousin of the victim, José Carlos Reyes Pacheco, a young man shot to death in broad daylight in a gang-ridden section of Iztapalapa.
In one such case, Hany Kiareldeen, the manager of an electronics store in Passaic, spent 19 months in jail based on evidence -- the content of which was never divulged -- that he threatened to kill former Attorney General Janet Reno before the government's case collapsed and he was ordered freed in 2000.
And Carroll was intent on confirming that suspicion using his training as a drug recognition expert, a controversial certification that some critics say can put innocent people in jail based on "guesswork".
Mr. Butts spent two years in jail, based largely on the accusation of a crackhead and chronic criminal named Martin Mitchell.
In other words, judges and juries were sometimes sending people to jail based on bogus science.
The story, however, suggests that it was only in the 1990s that many women were prosecuted and jailed based on this medical misinformation.
In the movie Minority Report, Steven Spielberg portrayed a community so into profiling that people would be jailed based on three clairvoyants' visual forecasts of potential future crimes.
