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Overturned in sentence

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Since 1989, when DNA testing was first used to free innocent people, over 70 percent of overturned convictions were based on eyewitness testimony.
In the last 20 years, developmental science has completely overturned that picture.
Night had fallen, and I went out under this great overturned saltshaker of stars, and I could see the tail lights of cars disappearing around the headlands 12 miles to the south.
It was nothing more than his own words that sent him to prison for nearly a decade, until a judge overturned his conviction just a few months ago.
And again, our notions of individuals as economic beings have been overturned.
But Paul got those decisions overturned and confirmed a parade for the day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.
I'm going to tell you a story of Teresia, a trader who overturned all our assumptions, made us question all the stereotypes that we'd gone in on, based on 20 years of literature review.
So what overturned our assumptions?
Awkward disaster mishmash has a team of scavengers coming across the overturned S.S. Poseidon, hoping to loot it before it goes under for good.
Aside from seeing Duncan Renaldo cast as a Spanish accented Frenchman, watching how much furniture is overturned, smashed, thrown, burned or blown up is what this serial is really all about.
Some worthy players do pop up in the supporting cast -- Louis Calhern, Cecil Kellaway, Joseph Wiseman, etc. -- but they're usually stuck in silly headdresses which look like overturned wastebaskets.
The 1963 Supreme Court case overturned laws that made prayer in public schools compulsory.
Many will not "get" the tone and acting styles in this era of Neo-Naturalism, but for those accustomed to having preconceptions gleefully overturned about what is "right and wrong" for a feature film, VIVA is not to be missed.
The main character, Mike, freaks out when he sees a smashed overturned car.
The main note of a person surviving the water was Bakker Charles Jorgen (1888-1977) who was kept alive for more than 2 1/2 hours in the water before being pulled onto Second Officer Charles Lighttoller's overturned Collapsable B lifeboat after 1st Wireless Operator John Jack Phillips froze to death on the boat minutes before Boat No. 12 took them all off just as it was about to submerge.
Subsequent excuses for the film's disastrous performance at the box-office varied from good weather putting people off going to the cinema to the revelation that the screenwriter had done time for IRA offences (subsequently overturned, but still about as endearing to the British public as Al Qaeda are to Americans).
His character was as revolting, cold, and repugnantly racist as a human being could be, but Hackman played Sam Cayhall as a person with a surprising depth and emotion that, although you couldn't exactly like him, you find yourself quietly hoping his death penalty will be overturned as he plumbs the depths of his evil deeds and confronts his past.
This is a constitutional principle that dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, when the Supreme Court overturned a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that nullified the abominable Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
They will be overturned at the next ballot, or in the streets, or even by local generals.
The court’s ruling not only invalidated existing campaign-finance law; it also overturned several prior Supreme Court decisions.
In the process, a basic principle of modern capitalism – that when debtors cannot pay back creditors, a fresh start is needed – has been overturned.
But a tariff would eventually be overturned by the World Trade Organization, and a default on US debt would be even more reckless.
Boris and his band of Brexiteers have more in common with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who overturned the French republic to create a new monarchy, than with Danton or Robespierre.
But while harassing the opposition, he has not overturned the minimal principles of democracy.
The most recent decision of the regional tribunal, in mid-December, overturned a 1979 Brazilian amnesty law protecting military officials from prosecution for abuses committed during the country’s 21-year military dictatorship.
Is the international scholarly pecking order about to be overturned?
But he knows something that they don't seem to recognize: Russia's people endorse his policies and do not want them overturned.
Nikita Khrushchev may have overturned Stalinism, but he was no less a prisoner of theoretical perversity.
First, the belief in the labor-market-clearing power of prices in a capitalist economy was never wholly overturned.
In his 2005 “responsible stakeholder” speech, then-US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick told the West that global-governance institutions must include China or risk being overturned.
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