منابع مشابه
Concern about Wrongful Convictions
The wrongful conviction of an innocent person is the worst nightmare to anyone who cares about justice. Eighty years ago, Judge Learned Hand said, “Our procedure has always been haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream.”1 The good judge was,as events of the last decade have conclusively proved, simply wrong.Although the criminal justice system has a number of sa...
متن کاملThe Scope of Wrongful Convictions
There is no international consensus as to what constitutes a “wrongful conviction”. The scope of wrongful convictions is contested, with different fields of academic study and different countries adopting different definitions. This multiplicity of definitions exists within the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China). The question of what makes convictions wrongful involves issues of law and ...
متن کاملDo your commitments match your convictions?
How many of us keep pace day to day, up-holding our obligations to our bosses, families, and the community, even as our overall satisfaction with work and quality of life decline? And yet, our common response to the situation is: "I'm too busy to do anything about it now." Unfortunately, unless a personal or professional crisis strikes, very few of us step back, take stock of our day-to-day act...
متن کاملStudying Wrongful Convictions: Learning From Social Science
There has been an explosion of legal scholarship on wrongful convictions in the last decade, reflecting a growing concern about the problem of actual innocence in the criminal justice system. Yet criminal law and procedure scholars have engaged in relatively little dialogue or collaboration on this topic with criminologists. In this article, we use the empirical study of wrongful convictions to...
متن کاملConvective aggregation in realistic convective-scale simulations
To investigate the real-world relevance of idealized-model convective self-aggregation, five 15 day cases of real organized convection in the tropics are simulated. These include multiple simulations of each case to test sensitivities of the convective organization and mean states to interactive radiation, interactive surface fluxes, and evaporation of rain. These simulations are compared to se...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/369359a0