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Search results for "double jeopardy" ...
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In the Shadow of Justice
A feature-length, investigative documentary, this piece follows Dan Slepian on a five-year investigative story involving the true identity of a shooter. His story lead to the "release of two innocent men, David Lemus and Olmedo Hidalgo, who had wrongfully spent 14 years in prison for murder; prompted the arrest of the real shooter, Thomas Morales; and convinced whistleblowers - including the jury forewoman, eyewitness to the murder, and even the DA who's argued to keep the two men in prison - to come forward and speak out."
Tags: documentary; double jeopardy; innocent; Dan Slepian; Thomas Morales; David Lemus; Olmedo Hidalgo; detective; Palladium murder; wrongful conviction
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Prime Suspect
This investigation tracks Marty Tankleff, convicted at age 17 of killing his parents, as he battles the court system for another shot at winning his freedom. The investigation raises issues about the legality of an aggressive police interrogation that ended in Tankleff's confession, which he immediately recanted.
Tags: courts; cops; police; crime; murder; retrial; double jeopardy; evidence
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Double Jeopardy: And the Pained Shall Pay
The Tennessean investigates abuse at state institutions for the mentally retarded. When the mentally retarded or mentally ill sued for being mistreated or neglected in institutions, they were being systematically denied compensation. The state responded to damage claims by filing counter-claims for the cost of the patients' exorbitantly expensive care. (Aug. 11-15, 1996)
Tags: Wissner CAR Double jeopardy: and the pained shall pay Contest entry Damage claims 28 pgs.
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Beaumont Enterprise details how a man convicted and sentenced to death for murdering a couple was free on bond because of in-trial errors, appellate court rulings and reluctance of prosecutors to retry the case a third time; looks at Texas' law on double-jeopardy.