Shielding the Presumption of Innocence from Pretrial Media Coverage

The "Presumption of Innocence" as Constitutional Doctrine

The Presumption of Innocence and the Human Rights Act

There has recently been a proliferation of case law dealing with potential inroads into the presumption of innocence in the criminal lawof England andWales, in the light of article 6(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights. This article is concerned with the nature of the presumption of innocence. It considers two central issues.The ¢rst is how the courts should address the question of wh...

How the Presumption of Innocence Renders the Innocent Vulnerable to Wrongful Convictions

This article argues, contrary to a straightforward reading, that the presumption of innocence and accompanying principles the burden of proof on the prosecution to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt acts in reality against the interests of those who might be innocent at every stage of the criminal justice process. This is because the „presumption‟, in effect, renders suspects of crime pas...

Innocent until Primed: Mock Jurors' Racially Biased Response to the Presumption of Innocence

BACKGROUND Research has shown that crime concepts can activate attentional bias to Black faces. This study investigates the possibility that some legal concepts hold similar implicit racial cues. Presumption of innocence instructions, a core legal principle specifically designed to eliminate bias, may instead serve as an implicit racial cue resulting in attentional bias. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL...

the effect of traffic density on the accident externality from driving the case study of tehran

در این پژوهش به بررسی اثر افزایش ترافیک بر روی تعداد تصادفات پرداخته شده است. به این منظور 30 تقاطع در شهر تهران بطور تصادفی انتخاب گردید و تعداد تصادفات ماهیانه در این تقاطعات در طول سالهای 89-90 از سازمان کنترل ترافیک شهر تهران استخراج گردید و با استفاده از مدل داده های تابلویی و نرم افزار eviews مدل خطی و درجه دوم تخمین زده شد و در نهایت این نتیجه حاصل شد که تقاطعات پر ترافیک تر تعداد تصادفا...