Sometimes, a review of cases shows, there are stark discrepancies between the testimony independent medical examiners give at trial and their reports.
The first is triaging the caseload: which means a desktop review of cases with a view to referral into the fast-track assessment system.
About 27 percent of 104 workers recommended for dismissal actually were fired, according to a review of cases at that agency.
In January 2011, I created my Conviction Integrity Unit, headed by John O'Mara, a deputy district attorney, to centralize the review of cases like this.
The reopening of the case against Mr. Magnitsky, who was 37, flowed from a Constitutional Court decision last week allowing review of cases against dead people.
Based on a review of cases of police misconduct substantiated against 664 officers, Mr. Green said he found that 75percentt of the officers disciplined received insignificant penalties that he characterized as a "slap on the wrist".
A review of cases over the last two years shows a pattern: the drug cartels hire people in need of cash with no criminal records to buy guns from legal sources, often just one or two at a time.
The head of the organisation that investigates alleged miscarriages of justice has ordered an urgent review of cases where DNA evidence is involved to find whether there are long-term prisoners whose innocence could now be scientifically proved.
The agency's strategies, Mr. Fagan said, include a weekly review of cases, a new public service announcement campaign on safe sleeping for infants, and the addition of 60 former law enforcement officers to the 50 already on staff.
In 2005, Cooley ordered a review of cases, to identify three-strikes inmates who had not committed violent crimes and whose life sentences a judge might deem worthy of second looks.
The report proposed a host of reforms, including enhancing its monitoring of nonprofit providers, improving the review of cases when contracts are canceled, strengthening supervision of caseworkers and carrying out new documenting requirements.
