" Still another said, "An innocent person going to jail.
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"I'm the most investigated innocent person in America," she says.
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To the policemen who killed an innocent person, go to church.
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He kills a perfectly innocent person, and he doesn't accomplish anything.
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False accusations from an officer can send an innocent person to prison.
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Today, no family-member of an innocent person will be in tears.
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Putting an innocent person to death is a mistake we cannot undo.
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But here's the tiebreaker, we can fix the problem with the innocent person.
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"The most devastating injustice is the conviction of an innocent person," she said.
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She chose to allow an innocent person to take the fall for her.
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Combatting the abuse of using protective services against an innocent person is difficult.
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You can't expect even an innocent person to feel comfortable in that situation.
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And what compounds it is the tragedy that an innocent person was killed.
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All those DNA exonerations raised the specter of an innocent person being killed.
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In the Esquire interview, he added that he has never killed an innocent person.
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Because next time around, that innocent person could very easily be me or you.
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"Imagine that you're an innocent person locked up in prison," the defense attorney said.
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"No innocent person needs multiple PR Firms," reads a post put up on Monday.
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False accusations from an officer can be enough to send an innocent person to prison.
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You turn on the TV, and you see an innocent person is freed every week.
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"Imagine that you're an innocent person and you're locked up in prison," the attorney said.
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All of this is necessary to guard against the possibility of executing an innocent person.
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Anderson feels certain he's not the only innocent person to be locked up because of transfer.
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So she's not like the innocent person sitting by the side with tears in her eyes.
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Any criminal liability of one family member cannot be transferred to another innocent person, he said.
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Why would an innocent person ever confess to a murder or some other terrible violent crime?
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"I would like to think that nobody would want to kill an innocent person," Brennan said.
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Moon's party expressed regret, accusing the court of making a mistake and jailing an innocent person.
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And his status as an innocent person doesn't change until certain procedural and evidentiary hurdles are cleared.
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"It's frightening how easy it is to convict an innocent person in this country," Ms. Saifee said.
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"No police officer would ever want to hurt an innocent person," Guyger told the court in tears.
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It's hard to know, 'Oh, this is obviously an innocent person and this is obviously the guilty person.
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" That includes his belief "that it's very likely that at some point, Oklahoma has executed an innocent person.
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Her son, Suarez said, "is the most innocent person and the most loving person, and he damaged that."
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An innocent person unjustly suspected of a crime could only wish, hope and pray for such an inquiry.
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The reality is ... but for the grace of God, Phelps could have killed an innocent person while driving drunk.
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In a new study, 1083 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery.
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Even so, the death penalty survives, as does the horrifying possibility that the government might kill an innocent person.
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The dark side of humanity exists — we don't need to turn an innocent person into a killer to understand that.
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Exposto's conduct during her arrest showed "she was naive and her behavior was that of an innocent person," he said.
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But it can't just be about the innocent person that gets released, or only the people who did nothing wrong.
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We learned that before turning to GEDMatch, police subpoenaed the DNA of an innocent person from another DNA testing site.
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Some cases can involve charges as serious as drug dealing or murder that could send an innocent person to prison.
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There is no amount of certainty that can guarantee that an innocent person will not mistakenly be put to death.
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"The way I am understanding the story today is that violence against an innocent person is never justified," Linden said.
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Instead, you pursued your next libelous and vicious crusade you engineered an attempt to frame and defame an innocent person.
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Now a completely innocent person with a parent born in one of the designated countries can be branded guilty by association.
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But "occasionally an innocent person will be convicted" was nothing but an acknowledgment of the imperfection of the criminal legal system.
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Depending on the state, an innocent person may not get any restitution, or may have to spend years fighting for it.
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"There's no excuse for using any kind of weapon to try to take the life of an innocent person," he said.
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Against this backdrop, it would take an enormous leap of faith to believe that no innocent person has ever been executed.
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Like most Americans, I believed our system was designed to let 100 guilty men go free rather than one innocent person perish.
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Unlike Stone, who doesn't trust a jury to reach the right decision regardless, Chandra believes an innocent person should assert his innocence.
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"Just as no serious crime should go unprosecuted; no innocent person should have his reputation tarnished by a false allegation," he added.
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In civil cases, the penalty is typically monetary, and so the concern about sending an innocent person to prison does not apply.
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You could execute an innocent person, and given our current state of knowledge, there is really no way to bring them back.
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Both Chuck and Bobby agree that sending an innocent person to jail is a prospect too unseemly to mention in front of Wendy.
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When you get a person that does some unjust things or killing an innocent person, killing fathers, killing people who have actual families.
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The Economist: The criminal-justice system sometimes vaunts the value that "better a criminal go free than an innocent person go to jail".
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"Queen for a Day" sessions are tense, often dangerous forums, even for an innocent person facing a wolf pack of determined, prosecutorial interrogators.
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And detectives have come to understand that suggestive police procedures, such as unfair lineups, raise the risk that an innocent person is prosecuted.
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We have much work to do to make our system more just so what happened to me doesn't happen to another innocent person.
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But these open-ended photo searches also increase the likelihood of ensnaring an innocent person, according to studies and experts in eyewitness identification.
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These sorts of errors present significant security risks, and, in a worst-case-scenario, could result in the arrest of an innocent person.
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"When an innocent person is convicted there's been some breakdowns in the system and that's what happened here," Kilgore told reporters outside the courthouse.
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To that Mr Ramos replies that he is "very comfortable that there is no innocent person on death row in the state of California".
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I don't have to make an attempt on his life with an innocent person, whom I was very fond of, sitting in the car.
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Nothing makes her angrier than an innocent person harmed by an avoidable danger — why wouldn't she do everything in her power to stop it?
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Then I started [to make him] more of a kind, innocent person that loves life, that absolutely loves his fiancé and loves a good time.
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Remember, every innocent person who hides in the crypts and gets cut down by zombified Stark ancestors will only bolster the numbers of the dead.
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"Falsely causing police to respond in force to the address of an innocent person of family is not a joke or a prank," McAllister said.
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"It's frightening how easy it is to convict an innocent person in this country," Seema Saifee, a staff attorney for the organization, told the Times.
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Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person, and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith.
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Aries feels he was booked at the station to be a comedian, and was merely doing that when Williams attacked a "defenseless and innocent" person.
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Do you have concerns about the fair application of the death penalty, or about the possibility of the criminal justice system executing an innocent person?
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"'I didn't do it' is the exact same answer an innocent person would give as well as a guilty person," he wrote in an email.
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The Los Angeles Police Department has suspended or reassigned several cops accused of mistakenly identifying an innocent person as a gang member and falsifying records.
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Data for the trials going on around the UK was released in May, finding the system wrongly identified an innocent person 98 percent of the time.
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Defenders of Mr Kavanaugh, worried about an open season on powerful men, point out that any innocent person in his position would rage against his accusers.
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A year ago today was a tragic event, one innocent person died, two innocent Virginia state troopers were killed, but let&aposs put it into perspective.
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A completely innocent person with a particularly diligent lawyer may seek immunity just to be safe in a "highly politicized, witch-hunt environment," as Kelner observed.
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By that time, I had served 39 years in prison for a murder I didn't commit -- the longest sentence by an innocent person in U.S. history.
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"We now regularly have to stand by in impotent silence, even though it may appear to us that an innocent person has been convicted," he wrote.
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Two former private investigators have sued GlaxoSmithKline, charging that the drug maker misled them and induced them to investigate an innocent person, resulting in their imprisonment.
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However, 74 labs wrongly said the sample included DNA evidence from the third suspect, an "innocent person" who should have been cleared of the hypothetical felony.
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Sex-crime trials, like all criminal proceedings, set an extremely high bar for conviction to diminish the chance that an innocent person will be unjustly incarcerated.
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Every time I see or hear about an innocent person being killed by a police officer, I need a moment to be alone to gather myself.
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He could succumb to the whims of political pressure and talk -- as he has said he wishes to do and as any innocent person likely would.
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That may seem pretty good, but it can be a huge problem when an innocent person is wrongfully convicted of a crime based on a false match.
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Why did she, an innocent person and now collateral damage in a horrific crime, feel forced to make a public statement that included the words "I'm sorry"?
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"Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person, and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith," he said.
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"He went on to say that he felt like a "terrible son" for almost injuring an innocent person, fighting with his dad, and lying to him "constantly.
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They want to win at any cost ... if an innocent person is proven not guilty or the jury say not guilty, it's a win for the prosecutor.
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The question, though, wasn't about whether Klobuchar was too lenient on Burrell, but if she was too tough — leading to the incarceration of a potentially innocent person.
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One innocent person was killed and five were injured in a shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in the Bronx, a New York Police Department source tells PEOPLE.
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A motive was also unclear, but the post describes Braxton-Andrew as "a totally innocent person" and dispelled rumors that his death had to do with purchasing drugs.
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"I do think that at some point it will end with a completely innocent person of prominence sticking a gun in his head and ending it," Macdonald predicted.
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"Wisdom of the Crowd" is essentially celebrating the kind of crowdsleuthing methods that led users of Reddit to accuse an innocent person in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
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"There is no way to put procedural safeguards in place that will guarantee with 100% certainty that the Commonwealth will not execute an innocent person," the report reads.
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In March, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order suspending executions, saying he was deeply troubled by the possibility that an innocent person could be put to death.
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But these open-ended photo searches can increase the likelihood of ensnaring an innocent person, and many other large police departments say they don't rely on the technique.
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The concept of sentence review units is not entirely unfamiliar; it builds on conviction review units that root out cases where an innocent person has been found guilty.
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The concept of sentence review units is not entirely unfamiliar; it builds on conviction review units that root out cases where an innocent person has been found guilty.
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"As an innocent person who has been jailed for two years, I continue to demand that the charges against me be dropped," Kem Sokha said in a Facebook post.
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Prosecutors and victims' rights advocates say that the doctrine is justified because people who choose to participate in dangerous crimes do so knowing that an innocent person could die.
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"If what has been alleged occurred, if an innocent person lost their life at the hands of violence, that's to be condemned," Pence told reporters on a tarmac in Colorado.
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Seventy-one percent of respondents said that there was some risk an innocent person would be executed, while 61 percent of them said the death penalty doesn't deter serious crimes.
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In heavily populated areas like the Bronx, it is too easy for an innocent person to be caught in crossfire or for someone to shoot into a crowd, she said.
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They argue that its use has been wildly inconsistent and even arbitrary, and exonerations of convicted inmates show that the risk of putting an innocent person to death is high.
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In a now-deleted Twitter thread, Whelan posed a conspiracy theory complete with floor plans and a Kavanaugh lookalike, while accusing an innocent person without any evidence or a victim statement.
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It would never be right to take action based on an accusation alone — there must be objective evidence or credible witnesses to ensure that an innocent person is not treated unfairly.
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Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law.
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I took this action because death sentences are unevenly and unfairly applied based on race, income and mental disability, and because we cannot abide the potential execution of an innocent person.
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A bloody-knuckled Archie breaks down over his terrible situation, his guilt over nearly hurting an innocent person, and all the ways he has fallen short of his father's moral compass.
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Across the country, some police commanders have concluded that leaving a crime unsolved is sometimes a better alternative to relying on a procedure that elevates the risk of jailing an innocent person.
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Gateway Pundit is a conservative site that has promoted stories accusing an innocent person of being the Las Vegas shooter and conspiracy theories about a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
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This is the right result because our country was founded on the idea that we would rather ten guilty offenders go free than one innocent person be wrongly convicted of a heinous crime.
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"We should never be satisfied when any innocent person is killed," he said, "but that is not something that should be driving our anxieties, relative to where we have been in the past."
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If that sounds good, then ask yourself whether it would be an acceptable cost of the death penalty if the state put to death one innocent person for every 85033 bona fide murderers.
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"I wanted the man to who killed her to be up here explaining why he killed an innocent person instead of me being here explaining why I didn't kill a guilty one," she says.
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"If not only killing yourself, you were well on your way to killing some innocent person who was minding their own business doing nothing else wrong but being in front of you," he wrote.
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SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday halted the death penalty, saying he was deeply troubled by the possibility of executing an innocent person even though California voters have repeatedly backed capital punishment.
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Huong's lawyer, Hisyam Teh, said his client's conduct after the incident was that of an innocent person, citing CCTV recordings showing her return to the crime scene two days later, when she was arrested.
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But whenever the government collects information on a target, it gets both sides of the conversation: the foreign agent—a diplomat, for example—and whatever potentially innocent person he or she is speaking with.
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Even if Daryl hadn't known that it was Carol that Richard intended to use as a scapegoat, there's no way he would've condemned an innocent person to die as a pawn in the soldier's game.
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"Credit thieves have figured this out — if you apply for credit in the name of the innocent person, the innocent person's name will come back, and [the bank] will open a credit account," said Smith.
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U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister told a news conference on Wednesday that falsely causing police to respond to the address of an innocent person or family was not a joke or prank, but a federal crime.
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Christian leaders are also particularly troubled by the possibility that an innocent person has been executed, so it was a short step to consider someone like Wood, who had so little involvement in the murder.
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Citing a National Academy of Sciences report estimating that 1 out of every 25 people on death row is innocent, Newsom said he could not countenance the odds of putting an innocent person to death.
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It makes me sick that someday, unless I really am completely unlovable, I will have a child, and I will impose whatever my self-definition of importance turns out to be on this otherwise innocent person.
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Huong's lawyer, Hisyam Teh, said his client's conduct after the incident was that of an innocent person, citing CCTV recordings which showed her returning to the scene of the crime two days later, when she was arrested.
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"Our fundamental position at CAIR is that no innocent person who has had no connection to criminal activity — has never been investigated or charged or convicted, certainly, of any violent crime — should be on the watchlist," she said.
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In doing so, the series not only raised questions about Avery and Dassey's innocence, but also about how easy it may be in the American criminal justice system to, well, make a murderer out of an innocent person.
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A 40-year-old man allegedly expressed remorse for killing a Florida woman, saying "he killed an innocent person that was his friend" after being "awoken by demons" early Saturday morning, according to an arrest report obtained by PEOPLE.
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OPINION The dangers of DNA testing: 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery in a new study, by Greg Hampikian, professor of biology at Boise State University (The New York Times).
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"I think you've got one innocent person in this whole thing who had no clue what was going on and he's the one getting the really bad end of the deal here, and that's Mr. Mark Harris," Britt said.
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"Under the progress in the investigation, I can say that it was a cowardly and brutal murder, of a totally innocent person, a clean man whose misfortune was to cross paths with this rascal," Mr. Corral wrote on Thursday.
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"I'm highly alarmed that someone would feel that way and that would take these significant steps to attack an innocent person, a godly person, at a church, one of the most sacred things our society has left," Parrish said.
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And this kind of Bayesian error can have very real and tragic consequences: Criminal cases where jurors unconsciously ignore exonerating evidence and send an innocent person to jail because of a bad experience with someone of the defendant's demographic.
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It made sense that a mental simulation of killing an innocent person (unjustified kill) led to overwhelming feelings of guilt and subsequent activation of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), an area of the brain involved in aversive, morally sensitive situations.
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In criminal justice, the phrase "innocent until proven guilty" is intended to convey a decision that we — as a society — should worry more about the risk of convicting an innocent person than the risk of letting a guilty one walk free.
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"Once again, an innocent person has been brutally murdered in France for no other apparent reason than the fact that she was Jewish and perceived as vulnerable," Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement.
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But while this provides a layer of protection against invasive searches to those suspected of wrongdoing, there is no such protection for anyone else, which means it would be easier to spy on a completely innocent person than a suspected criminal.
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"Somebody HIGH UP AND INSIDE F.N.C. is trying to get an innocent person fired," Mr. Hannity wrote, referring to a report in New York magazine that Mr. Shine's support from the Murdoch family, which controls Fox News Channel, was wavering.
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"I think you've got one innocent person in this whole thing who had no clue as to what was going on, and he's the one getting the really bad end of the deal here, and that's Mr. Mark Harris," Ms. Britt said.
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"When you think about the increased likelihood that African-Americans will be stopped and arrested, it's fairly astonishing that a perfectly innocent person who has been arrested, and has made no indication that he is a threat, can be strip searched," Ifill told me.
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As recently as Saturday, Posobiec was using Twitter to push the false narrative that the Charlottesville attack was the work of an "anti-Trump, open borders drug addict," referencing an innocent person who was later identified and attacked on social media, as The Daily Beast reported.
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These are just some of these systematic problems in our criminal justice system that is set up to convict and has unfortunately moved far away from the principle that it is better for 10 guilty to go free than for one innocent person to be convicted.
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A 2015 national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 71% of Americans believed that there is some risk that an innocent person will be put to death and only 26% thought that there are adequate safeguards in place to make sure that does not happen.
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We must be prepared to shoot to kill, be constantly wary of those who may potentially be a threat, be continuously conscious of the deadly instrument strapped to our bodies or secreted in a pocket, and be prepared to make the wrong judgment and kill an innocent person.
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"There is an established practice in Japan&aposs prosecutors offices only to indict a suspect where there is a high likelihood of court&aposs conviction based on sufficient evidence, so as to avoid an innocent person to suffer from the burden of bearing judicial expenses," the statement read.
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"Every American has sympathy for the innocent person who is looking to come to America for a better life, but the process must without exception prioritize America's national security first," Mr. Zeldin, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who represents parts of Long Island, said in a statement.
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Posting an un-anonymized video of a person suspected of a crime—not a convicted criminal, but a still-innocent person in the eyes of the law—and then imploring users to snitch, is another step toward what Amazon's really selling: an always-on surveillance state as a way to placate our fears.
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Bob PodhurstMontclair, N.J. To the Editor: The blood of every American or innocent person who will be killed in retaliatory attacks by Iran, as a result of President Trump's order to assassinate Qassim Suleimani against advice of most who are charged with advising him on matters of war, is on Mr. Trump's hands.
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"There's no way that a person who represents good, old-fashioned Midwestern values can sit back silently and allow an innocent person to suffer inside the criminal justice system, knowing that they had a role in putting them there, and even using the case as a talking point in the debate," said Levy Armstrong.
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So, I'll say that I'm highly alarmed that someone would feel that way and would take these significant steps to attack an innocent person, a godly person, at a church — one of the most sacred things our society has left — that they would plan that as a place of attack and base it solely on skin color.
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In an interview on Radiolab prior to the release of the documentary, Penny Beerntsen, the sexual assault victim who misidentified Avery in her rape case, asks herself: "Would Theresa Halbach be alive today if I hadn't misidentified my assailant?" suggesting that the damage that an innocent person would endure in prison might possibly lead them to commit a serious crime.
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I am inspired today on the World Day against the Death Penalty, when I see that more than half the countries in the world have abolished capital punishment because they have recognized that modern justice systems can protect the public from crime without the irrevocable and cruel nature of the death penalty and the constant risk of executing an innocent person.
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" On the Republican side, the biggest super PAC of the cycle, the Congressional Leadership Fund, began airing radio ads last week deploring "the liberal mob, pushing their extreme views, trying to hijack our democracy and steal seats on the United States Supreme Court" through "despicable lies, disgusting character assassination, a new low, even for them, falsely accusing an innocent person of being a sexual predator.
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"Our goal is a coalition of nations who share the aim of stamping out extremism and providing our children a hopeful future that does honor to God ... Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person, and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith," he said, as quoted in an advance text of the speech made available to press.
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"I hadn't done anything bad and yet I was still detained when I was an innocent person," said Ms. Vera, whose one-year sentence was ultimately suspended after her case became a flash point in Spain's free speech debate A European privacy standard from 2014, known as the Right to Be Forgotten and which lets people petition Google to remove search results about themselves, has also been criticized for blocking legitimate material.
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I do not suggest that most or even many complaining witnesses invent a charge of rape or sexual assault, but in a system of criminal justice whose underlying tenets include the idea that it is better for 10 guilty people to go free than for one innocent person to be convicted, allowing prosecutions decades after an alleged incident has the potential for great mischief, wrongful convictions and a diminution of confidence in the American legal system.
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