Abolghassem Salavati is among a handful of Iranian judges who are accused of repeatedly abandoning judicial impartiality and overseeing miscarriages of justice in trials in which scores of journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of Iran's ethnic and religious minorities have been condemned to lengthy prison terms, lashes and execution.
The six judges are accused of losing their judicial impartiality and overseeing miscarriages of justice in trials in which scores of journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of Iran's ethnic and religious minorities have been condemned to lengthy prison terms, lashes and even execution.
Two judges, Abolghassem Salavati and Mohammad Moghiseh, are accused of repeatedly losing their judicial impartiality and overseeing miscarriages of justice in trials in which journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of ethnic and religious minorities have been condemned to lengthy prison terms, lashes and execution.
In a decision written by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in Herrera v. Collins, the Supreme Court said that clemency "is the historic remedy for preventing miscarriages of justice where judicial process has been exhausted".
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, upheld Judge Fisher in an opinion last June, saying that it was Congress that had overstepped its authority and that judicial action was necessary to avoid a miscarriage of justice.
Though executions are less common, the activists say, the judicial system still lacks any kind of independence and miscarriages of justice are still commonplace.Teng Biao, a lawyer who helped form a group opposed to the death penalty, says he gets little public support for his cause, though people react to individual cases of perceived injustice.
Altham was nearing the end of his judicial career, but he had recently been accused of a miscarriage of justice at the York Assizes, which had resulted in a woman being sentenced to death by hanging for witchcraft.
Our belief is that the trial and conviction of Abu-Jamal comprised a miscarriage of justice so deficient in minimum standards of judicial procedure, and so rife with errors, as to reduce to travesty any idea of fairness or the impartial administrations of the principles of law.
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said: "Gerry and his father Giuseppe were two of the most infamous examples of miscarriages of justice by the British political and judicial system".
Although convicted of robbery in 1991 and released from prison in 1997, Mr. Lake has long maintained his innocence, and a judicial inquiry suggested that he might have been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
