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This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.
The case, which The Washington Post called "one of the state's most extraordinary legal cases", [1] used DNA testing and new state laws that allowed convicts to present new evidence in cases to prove innocence. The General Assembly passed a bill in 2012 to pay Haynesworth compensation for his wrongful convictions and lengthy incarceration ...
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The headstone of Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully convicted and executed for two murders that had been committed by his neighbour John Christie. A miscarriage of justice occurs when an unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, [1] such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. [2]
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Obstruction of justice is an umbrella term covering a variety of specific crimes. [1] Black's Law Dictionary defines it as any "interference with the orderly administration of law and justice". [ 2 ] Obstruction has been categorized by various sources as a process crime , [ 3 ] a public-order crime , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] or a white-collar crime .
After a detective re-opened the 1998 cold-case murder of Andrea Cincotta in Virginia, she accused Cincotta’s former fiancée of hiring someone to kill her, a new federal lawsuit says.
Refusing to issue warrants and dismissing runaway cases from official court oversight is a miscarriage of justice, and a misunderstanding of the role of the court in protecting the safety of our ...