Appeal mechanisms and post conviction relief procedures may help to address this issue to some extent. An error leading to the conviction of an innocent person...

In law, post conviction refers to the legal process which takes place after a trial results in conviction of the defendant. After conviction, a court will...

November 6, 2015, Judge Welch re-opened Syed's post-conviction relief proceedings. The post-conviction relief hearing, originally scheduled to last two...

Judge Hiller B. Zobel reduced Woodward's conviction to involuntary manslaughter during a post-conviction relief hearing, leading to her release after...

failed to reach a verdict on the charge. An application to appeal her conviction was refused by the Court of Appeal in April 2024. Letby is the most prolific...

sentenced Nichols to life in prison without parole on the conspiracy conviction, calling Nichols "an enemy of the Constitution" who had conspired to destroy...

Zellner filed a motion with the Manitowoc County circuit court for post-conviction scientific testing. Judge Angela Sutkiewicz signed a stipulation and...

the failure of any charges to "stick". While Gotti himself had escaped conviction, his associates were not as fortunate. The other two men in the Gambino...

2020, in a 7–0 decision, the Supreme Court of California upheld Scott's conviction but overturned his death sentence; the court found that Scott's trial...

has received public attention for its use in resolving high-profile post-conviction proceedings for individuals who claim they were wrongfully convicted...