The stock has sharply outperformed its peers, shooting up nearly 68% since August 2010, when Goldman added the stock to its conviction-buy list.
The decision to look into the Patz case is one of several campaign promises Mr. Vance has fulfilled since taking office in January, including creating a conviction-integrity unit.
Malvo and adult defendant John Allen Muhammad are facing capital murder trials in Virginia because that state's laws provide an easier path to execution -- if a conviction is secured -- than do those in Maryland and the District of Columbia, where other sniper murders occurred.
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The hard-partying Snipes--now appealing his conviction and three-year sentence in the U.S. for willfully failing to file income tax returns--was out on bail and had been given permission to travel abroad only to London and Bangkok for film commitments.
Most crucially, it has still not been decided whether the two-thirds majority required for a conviction means two-thirds of the 24 Senate seats (two of which are vacant), or two-thirds of the 22 sitting senators, a distinction that could be critical.
Damon Thibodeaux was released in September after 15 years on Louisiana's death row, after post-conviction doubts were raised about whether he killed his 14-year-old step-cousin.
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Dalton Smith, who was wanted on a parole violation related to a first-degree robbery conviction, attempted to rob the off-campus home where he and Hofstra junior Andrea Rebello were fatally shot, Nassau County police said.
In Florida, a conviction for second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The re-conviction rate for offenders under the age of 21 in Scotland is currently 36.1%.
And there have been results, most notably the conviction of hedge-fund executive Raj Rajaratnam.
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The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles, Louisiana, did the same with Bell's battery conviction in mid-September.
All but a few of the accused have been exonerated or had their verdicts overturned in post-conviction legal proceedings.
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Following the conviction, multi-million dollar lawsuits brought by Enron investors and shareholders demanding compensation are likely to follow, and could bankrupt the firm.
An appeals court in New York has overturned the 2004 conviction of high-tech investment banker Frank Quattrone , citing incorrect jury instructions.
Mrs Thatcher embodied something they felt had also died - conviction politics.
The Court of Appeal has been urged to quash the conviction of ex-Metropolitan Police commander Ali Dizaei for perverting the course of justice.
Meshbesher says he won a post-conviction proceeding in a felony case last year, but he has never seen anyone do it in a misdemeanor case.
And that conviction drew others -- English, French, Swiss, American.
The difficulties encountered in attempting to re-examine and challenge clearly erroneous verdicts have been compounded in recent decades by limitations in the ease with which post-conviction legal review is available.
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He has snagged plea bargains or guilty verdicts in eight cases, including the conviction of Sun-Diamond Growers, a California raisin-and-nut cooperative, for, among other things, giving Espy luggage, meals and transportation.
After a court had published the damning reasons for its earlier conviction and 11-year sentence on an associate of Silvio Berlusconi , for bribing judges, supporters of the Italian prime minister hit back: let parliament set up an inquiry into political use of the courts.
Devault says that until proven otherwise in the longer term, value funds should still trump growth--and with a bit less conviction he says that small-caps should still outpace large-caps.
Jenkins' lawyer, Mark Seifert, says the candidate was not aware of Miller's record--a manslaughter conviction, a guilty plea to attempted murder, and more--but "we don't really care" about it.
There's no doubt - despite questions about his conviction for the murder of Catholic barman Peter Ward - that Gusty Spence was a founder member of the loyalist UVF back in the 1960s.
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Yet the opposition Social Democrats essentially pursued the same policies as before, only with more pro-European conviction.
But the commonly-expressed conviction that technological innovation will immiserate broad segments of society is only somewhat less irrational.
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Mr. Morales has a criminal history that includes a conviction on an attempted-murder charge in 1998, the official said.
The bailout of the Spanish banks - sealed last Friday - lacks conviction.
Mr. Bush said that as president, his deepest-held conviction was that America must strive to expand the reach of freedom.
The second trial resulted in a conviction and a 240-year prison sentence, but was overturned on a technicality on appeal.
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