Sentence examples for to help exonerate from inspiring English sources

The health insurance exchanges required under the federal health care law haven't passed, nor has legislation for post-conviction D.N.A. testing to help exonerate wrongly convicted felons.

SINCE 1992 the Innocence Project, an American legal charity, has used DNA evidence to help exonerate 271 people who were wrongly convicted of crimes, sometimes after they had served dozens of years in prison.

But the incident involving the student, Omar Lovell, now 19, demonstrated how the MetroCard system, besides providing discounts, can also provide evidence to help exonerate or, in other cases, prosecute those arrested.

Forensic science is increasingly used to help exonerate the innocent and establishing links between individuals and criminal activities.

Along the way, he used DNA to help exonerate at least a dozen wrongfully convicted people in the United States, Taiwan, and Italy.

Led by Betty alum, Ana Ortiz, Devious Maids portrays a group of Latina women who all face a menagerie of different problems from cheating on their spouses to helping exonerate a child from a murder charge.

It said the failure of Malaysia's federal court to uphold the prosecution's obligation to provide access to evidence that may help exonerate him set a dangerous precedent for criminal cases and was a "recipe for unfair trials".

Re "Why the Court Was Right to Allow Cheek Swabs," by Akhil Reed Amar and Neal K. Katyal (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, June 4): The claim that forcing arrestees to provide DNA samples can help exonerate the innocent ignores the reality that innocent people can and routinely do voluntarily provide DNA samples that exonerate them because they do not match the crime scene evidence.

It would also require the preservation of biological evidence -- for example, hair fibers -- that could later prove crucial to an appeal, and guarantee federal and state death-row inmates access to DNA testing if that could help exonerate them.

In February, Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, introduced a bill that would provide competent lawyers to capital defendants and guarantee federal and state death-row inmates access to DNA testing if that could help exonerate them.

The measure, the bipartisan Innocence Protection Act, would also require preservation of biological evidence that may later prove crucial on appeal, and ensure federal and state death row inmates access to DNA testing if that could help exonerate them.