Sentence examples for maintaining innocence from inspiring English sources

Previously, such prisoners were treated as "deniers" with no account taken of the various reasons for maintaining innocence, nor the fact that some may actually be innocent.

Staff are now instructed on the appropriate way to engage with prisoners maintaining innocence, asking for details of their claims so those who may be innocent can be identified and informed about the legal avenues open to them.

Most significant, perhaps, has been the construction of a typology of prisoners maintaining innocence, which was devised to assess the eligibility of cases.

Of the cases in which a defendant is not maintaining innocence, Judge DiMango said, "I don't think anybody lets any client take a plea that they don't believe in".

As a consequence, indeterminate-sentenced prisoners maintaining innocence are often faced with the so-called parole deal, where they are unable to achieve parole unless they undertake offence-behaviour courses that require the admission of guilt as a prerequisite.

It is encouraging that the typology has been embraced by the prison service and the parole board for prisoners maintaining innocence while serving indeterminate sentences (where the prisoner has no release date and does not get out until a parole board decides he or she is no longer a risk to the public).

Her objective is simply to establish a pattern of consistently maintained innocence.

Rockefeller impostor gets 27 years in prison; maintains innocence.

("L.A. Unified food chief resigns under fire but maintains innocence," AUg. 3).

Macmillan released a statement maintaining its innocence.

But he is still maintaining his innocence.