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A series of wrongful convictions were uncovered in the 2010s which had a large impact on the judicial system and undermined public trust in the Chinese justice system. [58] [59] [60] Zhao Zuohai was one of the wrongful convictions, who had to serve 10 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. The alleged victim that he murdered had ...
The Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin maintains an "Actual Innocence awareness database" containing "resources pertaining to wrongful convictions, selected from the popular media (such as newspaper articles and segments which aired on television news magazines), journal articles, books, reports, legislation and websites".
The Hudud Ordinances are laws in Pakistan enacted in 1979 as part of the Islamization of Pakistan by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan.It replaced parts of the British-era Pakistan Penal Code, adding new criminal offences of adultery and fornication, and new punishments of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death.
The registry generally defines an exoneration – a subset of wrongful convictions more broadly – as a case in which a person is relieved of all consequences of a criminal conviction as a result ...
Hundreds of people have seen their convictions quashed because of a CCRC referral. “We encourage anyone who believes they are a victim of a miscarriage of justice to apply to us.”
These kinds of eyewitness errors are common in wrongful conviction cases. The Innocence Projects says that eyewitness misidentification played a role in 69% of convictions overturned by DNA evidence.
Wrongful conviction has many social, economic, and psychological consequences for people later exonerated, especially for death row exonerees. [ 6 ] After exoneration, some exonerees publicly have joined or formed organizations like Witness to Innocence and the Innocence Project to tell their stories as a form of advocacy against the death ...
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state's law providing compensation to incarcerated people who were wrongfully convicted doesn't apply if the defendant was only "legally" innocent ...