exonerating evidence

None of the exonerating evidence was even admitted in the latest trial.

Ulla said: Would one think that we should look for exonerating evidence for him?

Hacker can scarcely conceal his glee at reading out the exonerating evidence: ".

At sixteen, he had been brought to Alexander by a Persian general involved in Darius' murder, to give exonerating evidence.

The report further noted the US policy of considering all military-age males in a strike zone as militants unless exonerating evidence proves otherwise.

Other taxpayers told of I.R.S. agents who wrongly seized bank accounts, fabricated evidence, ignored exonerating evidence and refused to acknowledge payments.

G.O.B. regains his self-confidence after the successful rescue of George Sr., but then falls into the pool while holding the cooler, destroying the exonerating evidence.

There was no process of law involved, nor did the proscribed man have the right to trial, presentation of exonerating evidence, or any kind of hearing to protest his innocence.

Today, with so many walking off death row because of exonerating evidence, one has to wonder whether we can any longer be content with a system in which abstract principle trumps justice.

After the hearing that led to Mr. Grant's release, his court-appointed lawyer, Natasha Lapiner-Giresi, said that prosecutors did not tell her what the exonerating evidence might be.

In February 1999, David Protess, a Northwestern University journalism professor and his students uncovered exonerating evidence on behalf of Death Row inmate Anthony Porter.

Even so, Mr. Coleman's defense team, aided by Jim McCloskey, a Presbyterian lay minister who has saved several innocent death row inmates, keeps coming up with potentially exonerating evidence.

The argument that "there must come a time when cases can be closed" - and that therefore prisoners should be executed if exonerating evidence has not appeared by some arbitrary deadline - flies in the face of basic fairness.

He was convicted and sentenced to death in a second trial in which this instruction was not given and his lawyers, Frank Clark and William Wallace, were not allowed to introduce potentially exonerating evidence.

Stevens also accused Robert Philibosian, the deputy district attorney on the case, of lying and withholding evidence from the court and defense lawyers in order to keep the Buckeys in jail and prevent access to exonerating evidence.

According to Assange's legal team there is a lot of exonerating evidence in the police file, and material which they supplied to the Guardian, including a copy of the chronology of events, and the press statement of the initial chief prosecutor Eva Finne.

In November 2000, he became exasperated when he was denied permission to give exonerating evidence as part of his testimony before the Scottish Court in the Netherlands to try two Libyans for the downing on December 21, 1988, of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Amnesty International condemned the decision to deny clemency, and former President (and Georgia Governor) Jimmy Carter released a public letter in which he stated "Executing Troy Davis without a real examination of potentially exonerating evidence risks taking the life of an innocent man and would be a grave miscarriage of justice."