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...

Clements High School where in 1997 as a 17-year-old he received a criminal conviction for a series of seven burglaries that he had "meticulous[ly]" planned...

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

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...

life imprisonment with a whole life order. An application to appeal her conviction was refused by the Court of Appeal in May 2024 and she continued to assert...

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...

grant her a visa to enter the United Kingdom because of her criminal conviction for obstructing justice. She had been planning to speak at the Royal Academy...