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  2. Loss of rights due to criminal conviction - Wikipedia

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    The Criminal Code contains several offences related to driving a motor vehicle, including driving while impaired or with a blood alcohol count greater than eighty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood (".08"), [3] impaired or .08 driving causing bodily harm or death, [4] dangerous driving (including dangerous driving causing bodily harm or death), [5] and street racing. [6]

  3. Posthumous trial - Wikipedia

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    A posthumous trial or post-mortem trial is a trial held after the defendant's death. Posthumous trials can be held for a variety of reasons, including the legal declaration that the defendant was the one who committed the crime, to provide justice for society or family members of the victims, or to exonerate a wrongfully convicted person after their death.

  4. United States federal probation and supervised release

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    The life cycle of federal supervision for a defendant. United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the former is imposed as a substitute for imprisonment, [1] or in addition to home detention, [2] while the latter is imposed in addition to imprisonment.

  5. Innocent prisoner's dilemma - Wikipedia

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    He would have been eligible for release after 6½ years of imprisonment, but his refusal to wrongly confess meant that authorities refused to grant parole. [15] He was released after 17 years in prison, and was declared innocent by the Court of Appeal in July 2023. [16] The case has been academically studied as a severe miscarriage of justice. [17]

  6. Daniel was arrested after allegedly missing a Feb. 24 court date for misdemeanor theft, stemming from his alleged refusal to pay for a $65 cab ride. He fought with officers during the initial dispute, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Daniel complained of chest pains twice, and he was on dialysis prior to his arrest.

  7. Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 inmates on federal death row

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over ...

  8. One woman's 56-year fight to free her innocent brother from ...

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    Japan has a 99% conviction rate, and a system of so-called "hostage justice" which, according to Kanae Doi, Japan director at Human Rights Watch, "denies people arrested their rights to a ...

  9. List of punishments for murder in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A person who commits murder is called a murderer, and the penalties, as outlined below, vary from state to state. In 2005, the United States Supreme Court held that offenders under the age of 18 at the time of the murder were exempt from the death penalty under Roper v. Simmons. In 2012, the United States Supreme Court held in Miller v.