Sentence examples for mistaken convictions from inspiring English sources
The move was hailed by opponents of the death penalty, who said mistaken convictions like those discovered in Illinois were common throughout the nation.
They said that they hoped to prove that some of the biggest tools in the prosecution's arsenal were frequently unreliable and led to mistaken convictions: eyewitness testimony, fingerprint evidences and the testimony of informers.
But while concerns have grown over poor legal representation and mistaken convictions, laws in recent years have nonetheless cut legal aid for defendants who cannot afford their own lawyers.
Howard Safir, commissioner of the New York Police Department, said he thought mistaken convictions were highly unusual but costly, because the innocent were punished while the real perpetrators remained at large, perhaps to prey on other victims.
Phineas P. Quimby and Mary Baker Eddy (a former patient of Quimby's who founded the Christian Science movement) published numerous tracts exhorting their followers to beliefs that stressed the immanence of God and a link between bodily ills and mistaken convictions.
8 NATIONAL 20-33 Death Penalty's Hiatus Likely to Go On in Illinois Gov. George Ryan of Illinois, who has imposed a moratorium on executions in the state, says he would need a "100 percent guarantee" against any mistaken convictions before he would restore the death penalty.
Granting that they were mistaken, it does not follow that their mistaken conviction constituted contempt.
The letter, which began with the denunciatory phrase "J'accuse," blamed the army for covering up its mistaken conviction of Dreyfus.
Zola accused the army of covering up its mistaken conviction of Dreyfus and of acquitting Esterhazy on the orders of the Ministry of War.
In it he attacked the army for covering up its mistaken conviction of Dreyfus, an action for which Zola was found guilty of libel.
All forms of prejudice spring from the same well: the mistaken conviction that one set of people is innately better than another, who should accordingly be marginalised.
