Rape case was properly handled, ex-judge says: Magistrate contends Cabell man was wrongly convictedLawrence Messina
In 2001,Jane Dorotikwas sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the murder of her husband. She always maintained she was wrongly convicted. Decades later, new defense lawyers successfully challenged the state's case, discrediting some of the evidence that had been used to convict her. O...
“tough on crime”. From then, correctional systems have grown and as people are doing more crimes, there are plenty of punishments for them. In the mid 1970’s, rehabilitation was the main concern for the criminal justice system. It was common that when someone was convicted of a crime,...
would ever confess to a crime they didn’t commit,” Dr. Saul Kassin, a professor at John Jay College, told Moriarty. “And yet, when you look at the database of known wrongful convictions … Homicide cases in particular, where there is DNA to exonerate … 60...
Thirdly, appellant relies upon Government Code section 74514 because it in turn refers back to Government Code section 69952. Thus Government Code section 74514 provides: "In all cases where by law, the court may direct the payment of transcription fees out of the city and county treasury, suc...
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was threatened for her life and removal of her children (Dubinsky and Iacovetta 505). Her case played out in two arenas the courtroom in which she was guilty ofmurderand sentenced to hang and in the public sphere where thousands of people came to her defense. Napolitano was judged by an...
The common factor in such cases is that something has gone seriously wrong in the investigation of the offence or the conduct of the trial, resulting in the conviction of someone who should not have been convicted. While Lord Steyn considered that a stricter test should be applied, ...
‘They said she wasn’t safe at home but they put her where someone had been downloading child abuse images.’ He added: ‘There is a danger that those who practise in the family justice system fail to give proper consideration to the Article 10 rights of the media. This must now cease...
Like Darryl, Roosevelt was warm, welcoming, kind, gentle and open. He told me how he had survived all those years behind bars, and explained how he was able to forgive those who he claimed wrongly convicted him. I did not see a rapist—but I wasn't sure what to think. I left India...