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He had no previous convictions, there was no forensic evidence in the case.
Since 1989, when DNA testing was first used to free innocent people, over 70 percent of overturned convictions were based on eyewitness testimony.
And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and knowledge is better than ignorance and superstition.
I'm a woman of super strong opinions, with really deep convictions, direct speech.
For me, the achievements of the Hearing Voices Movement are a reminder that empathy, fellowship, justice and respect are more than words; they are convictions and beliefs, and that beliefs can change the world.
As you'll see, we put some information in, but most of it is incredibly simple, it's easy to use, it focuses on things like the defendant's prior convictions, whether they've been sentenced to incarceration, whether they've engaged in violence before, whether they've even failed to come back to court.
But what we do know is that false confessions or admissions were present in approximately 25 percent of wrongful convictions of people later exonerated by DNA evidence.
Of course, if we're just looking at wrongful convictions and exonerations, we're only getting part of the story.
Well, in the savings and loan debacle, our agency that regulated savings and loans, OTS, made over 30,000 criminal referrals, produced over 1,000 felony convictions just in cases designated as major, and that understates the degree of prioritization, because we worked with the FBI to create the list of the top 100 fraud schemes, the absolute worst of the worst, nationwide.
It isn't simply that they've had to reinvent the wheel of how to do these prosecutions; they've forgotten that the wheel exists, and therefore, we have zero prosecutions, and of course, zero convictions, of any of the elite bank frauds, the Wall Street types, that drove this crisis.
Yasmine wrote, "Question your convictions.
People in prostitution, including people who have been trafficked into it, regularly receive multiple convictions for prostitution.
As for convictions, out of an estimated 5,700 convictions in 2013, fewer than 500 were for labor trafficking.
Keep in mind that labor trafficking accounts for 68 percent of all trafficking, but fewer than 10 percent of the convictions.
We're judged internally and externally by our convictions and our trial wins, so prosecutors aren't really incentivized to be creative at our case dispositions, or to take risks on people we might not otherwise.
But he had two prior armed robbery convictions.
Over the course of the first year, we found about 13 wrongful convictions, people having been in jail for decades, and we released all of them.
And he expressed his unshakeable convictions in everyday language, in metaphors, in stories.
Especially these words: "There are liberals who have all the proper attitudes, but no real convictions.
As many studies repeatedly have shown, we, for example, ignore effects that contradict our convictions.
In India, only 25 percent of rapes come to a police station, and of these 25 percent that come to a police station, convictions are only in four percent of the cases.
Habits, certainties, convictions, exclamation marks, paradigms, dogmas.
KB: James and our country director in Ghana, Emmanuel Otoo are now receiving regular death threats because the two of them managed to get convictions and imprisonment for three human traffickers for the very first time in Ghana for enslaving people, from the fishing industry, for enslaving children.
So better to shy away from, to ignore, the moral and the religious convictions that people bring to civic life.
It seems to me that our discussion reflects the opposite, that a better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.
In the classroom, we have arguments on some of the most fiercely held moral convictions that students have about big public questions.
She is reserved in manner and painfully honest, but also strong in her convictions, unfailingly loyal, extremely intelligent, and remarkably astute.
My vigorous youthful idealism has been slowly reduced to concerned parent with quiet convictions or rather "beliefs."
However, because the very decade that gave birth to these films was so ruled by its own convictions, most all of the films released at this period have dated.
Now, one might agree or not with those actions, but at least the movie has the courage from not shying away from its convictions.
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