Sentence examples for mass exoneration from inspiring English sources
By Jia Tolentino How one woman's fight to save her family helped lead to a mass exoneration.
She has revamped the office's Conviction Integrity Unit, resulting in overturned convictions in over 20 cases, including the first-ever mass exoneration in Cook County for 15 men whose convictions stemmed from misconduct by a Chicago Police Officer.
The mass exoneration in the Watts cases is rare, but not unprecedented.
All but one had their drug convictions vacated last year in a mass exoneration; the other had a gun conviction dropped later.
In fact, we also discussed hundreds more documented cases in mass exonerations that were not part of our statistical analysis.
But this pyramid could, at last, come tumbling down, through the phenomenon of mass exonerations, or large swaths of convictions overturned in connection with individual corrupt cops.
"The next phase in the innocence movement is mass exonerations," said Joshua Tepfer of the Exoneration Project, a pro-bono legal clinic that has represented 31 defendants railroaded by Watts and his crew.
People are now pushing for exoneration.
Add to that the rising number of exonerations — people wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death.
Exoneration and expungement, yes.
