Sentence examples for valid conviction from inspiring English sources

Albert Woodfox has been imprisoned for forty years without a valid conviction.

"Federal law does not recognize actual innocence as a mechanism to overturn an otherwise valid conviction".

But Woodfox has never received a valid conviction for the crime for which he has been imprisoned.

The state's responsibility remains to pursue justice, and to defend what it believes is a valid conviction".

"For the vast majority of his life, Woodfox has spent nearly every waking hour in a cramped cell in crushing solitude without a valid conviction," he said.

An illegal arrest, without more, has never been viewed as a bar to subsequent prosecution, nor as a defense to a valid conviction.

(Even though false confessions ratified by due process do not yield valid convictions).

He also said that the AFP had confirmed with Egyptian Interpol as recently as January 2013 that Abdellatif had valid convictions related to murder and firearms possession.

Released inmates "may not recover incarceration-related damages for any period of incarceration supported by a valid, unchallenged conviction and sentence," she wrote, referring to the no-contest conviction.

But a state judge ruled the conviction valid, a third stay was denied and a state body in Georgia denied clemency this week – despite a vast outcry in the US and from abroad.

The Maryland attorney general's office said in a statement that it continues to consider Syed's conviction valid and suggested it would appeal Thursday's ruling.