Sentence examples for wrong convictions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ashcroft doesn't even have the courage of his own wrong convictions.

And in death-penalty cases wrong convictions might be impossible to put right.Police interrogations also follow linguistic guidelines about direct and indirect speech that seem odd and unreliable.

Rather than discount witnesses, researchers are trying to use their findings to make trials fairer and testimony more reliable, particularly in the case of suspect lineups, a police staple at the heart of many wrong convictions.

"And that is that this is an administration full of people that either have the wrong convictions or, in the case of former Secretary Clinton, lack the courage of her convictions".

Twelve years later, an Queens assistant district attorney, James C. Quinn, was investigating a case involving a possible wrong conviction last August and decided to reopen the Martinez case.

Clive Stafford Smith, director of the Reprieve organization and a capital punishment defense attorney in the US for more than 30 years, told VICE News: "Sadly, so many of the problems with the dreadful wrong conviction of George Stinney, an innocent young boy, persist in death penalty systems in the US and around the world.

The thing the doom-mongers got most thoroughly wrong was their conviction that interaction would change the structure and character of television programmes.

Right or wrong, his absolute conviction in his own vision of the world has made him a billionaire with a half-dozen hugely successful commercial and residential buildings in Manhattan.

It has led us to an easier acceptance of "liberal interventionism", founded on the assumption that we in the west are alone virtuous and qualified to distinguish political right from wrong – and the conviction that our self-evidently virtuous ends must justify whatever means we employ, lighting up a bomber flare path from Dresden to Baghdad to Tripoli.

What most of us lack isn't our own idea of right and wrong, but the conviction to see it through.

There are still those proselytizing and charismatic religious groups convinced that their way of thinking and believing is the only correct way; that they are the bearers of ultimate, dogmatic truth and that it is their duty and vocation in life to convince those of us on the wrong side of conviction to join them on the right side.