All but a few of the accused have been exonerated or had their verdicts overturned in post-conviction legal proceedings.
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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 and his lawyers-of-choice brought an innovative legal attack on his conviction, claiming that the improper asset freeze had deprived him of the constitutionally-guaranteed effective legal counsel of his choice.
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Following her conviction, Ms Hainey's legal team launched an appeal against her conviction on the grounds that crucial evidence against her was flawed.
If however the president's conduct does not implicate the office or the powers of the presidency, the remedy is in a legal process involving prosecution, conviction and punishment in the courts.
Protracted posttrial appeals and motions often result in lengthy delays between conviction and execution, said legal experts.
The leader of Guildford Borough Council has apologised after being disqualified for driving over the legal alcohol limit - his second such conviction.
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Martin's new legal team believe that the farmer's conviction was thoroughly unsafe.
The technique has already stood up to legal scrutiny twice once when it supported a conviction, and once when it freed an innocent suspect.
It could be years before a final decision is reached in the Knox case, and undoubtedly Knox's legal team would fight extradition on every level if her conviction is upheld.
In 2009, an appeals court found that his conviction was possibly impacted by an improper use of legal theory by government prosecutors.
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Last month Sgt Nightingale's conviction was quashed and his lawyers will raise several "legal issues" at the retrial.
While his intimidating and physically abusive behavior warranted the stalking conviction, the Judge David Minge ruled that Hormann had a legal right to put a tracking device on the car because he was a partial owner.
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And the Supreme Court's ruling may give legal ammunition to Frank Quattrone, an investment banker who is appealing against his conviction on three counts of obstruction of justice in an unrelated case.
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In the case of a federal guilty plea or conviction, the central question surrounding the death penalty, according to legal experts, would be whether Mr. Tsarnaev and his lawyers could persuade prosecutors that he should be spared perhaps by extensively cooperating or by demonstrating that he deserved leniency.
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Grenfell's legal team indicated in October last year that they would launch an appeal against his conviction.
"I cannot think of a more egregious and specious legal opinion - admitting that the torture occurred but ruling the confession admissible and allowing the conviction to stand, " Mr Bassiouni said.
Just as letters to one of the boys he was accused of molesting helped secure his conviction, the letters to the judge all but guaranteed a maximum punishment, legal observers say.
Lengthy delays between conviction and execution are often the result of protracted post-trial appeals and motions, said legal experts.
The conviction rates for sexual assault for children is very low and we must place opportunities in our legal system for children to give evidence when they are not being pressurized.
But the case is now being pursued on the same legal theory used to prosecute former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, who died last year while appealing his 2011 conviction in Germany for accessory to murder on the grounds that he served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp.
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