He was later retried without the confession and convicted again.
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Since then, we've refined, revised, and retried this commonsense legislation.
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But Mr. Silver was retried, and convicted on May 11.
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They should be retried, it said, and released in the meantime.
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Tellis is set to be retried at the end of the month.
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She was retried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1978.
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She has also appealed her conviction, seeking to have her case retried.
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Hargrove's conviction has also been thrown out and he won't be retried.
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Davis reached a deal in January with prosecutors to avoid being retried.
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His conviction was also overturned on appeal, and he is being retried.
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Batey was later retried, convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Adam Skelos, who is also being retried, is not expected to testify.
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He is due to be retried on the kidnapping charge later this year.
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As many should have their sentences commuted or their cases retried or reviewed.
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It is unlikely, but still possible, that Sandy and Perez will be retried.
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It is unclear whether he and Shapiro will be retried on the deadlocked counts.
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The case could be retried, but it's possible the prosecutor will decide not to.
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Federal prosecutors retried Mr. Silver this year, and once again, they secured a conviction.
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Both men are being retried after their convictions were overturned on appeal last year.
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Winfrey is currently being retried, because the Georgia Supreme Court overturned his 2015 conviction.
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Nearly 40 years later, he was retried after the state reopened the murder investigations.
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When the state retried him using five prior bad-act witnesses, he was convicted.
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Mueller has until Wednesday to decide whether to have Manafort retried on those counts.
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Judge Navarro dismissed the charges against them "with prejudice," meaning they cannot be retried.
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Then in December, he was given only four days notice that he would be retried.
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The men later confessed to the crime in a magazine interview but weren&apost retried.
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Mitchell's case was retried, and jurors in March ordered AbbVie to pay him $3.2 million.
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A year later, he was retried and acquitted after the jury deliberated for 22003 minutes.
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Winslow was being retried on eight charges spanning 16 years and stemming from five accusers.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated when Officer William Porter will be retried.
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The men later admitted to a journalist that they killed Till, but they were not retried.
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Porter's own trial ended in a mistrial and he is set to be retried in September.
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The U.S. District court judge ordered Dassey freed within 90 days unless he's retried by prosecutors.
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The development in the case allowed for Ward and Fontenot to be retried, this time separately.
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He ordered that both cases be retried separately, with the first trial beginning on Sept. 26.
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Police said Lutfi Dervishi had been recaptured last year and was among those now being retried.
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His conviction was overturned, and he was being retried when he died last year at 91.
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Cases where errant data was a deciding factor in the conviction could end up being retried.
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Some defendants were retried, but many others accepted plea bargains for time served and were released.
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Another Canadian man, imprisoned on drug charges, was rapidly retried in January and sentenced to death.
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His conviction was overturned in 2014 for prosecutorial misconduct; in 2015, he was retried and acquitted.
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But that sentence was thrown out on appeal, and Mr. Fayadh was retried and sentenced to death.
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Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley on Saturday appealed for calm and said he hoped Tensing will be retried.
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U.S. News: Ingmar Guandique, who was convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy, will not be retried.
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That was good news for Murphy, who could be retried in federal court if the ruling stands.
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Defendants sentenced in absentia in Egypt are automatically retried once they are captured or turn themselves in.
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Months later, they admitted to killing Till in a magazine article, but they could not be retried.
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Some of the boys were retried and reconvicted, and the Supreme Court twice overturned the guilty verdicts.
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Prosecutors would face hurdles if they retried the case, as memories have faded and witnesses have died.
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Tellis&aposs first trial ended in a hung jury and he&aposs scheduled to be retried in September.
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His own trial ended in a mistrial in December and he is scheduled to be retried in September.
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Numerous high-profile murder cases have been retried after revelations that prosecutors withheld key evidence from the courts.
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Although Mr Georgiou was acquitted several times on both charges, the acquittals were annulled and he was retried.
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In New Jersey, more than 13,000 drivers convicted with flawed tests can seek to have their cases retried.
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Ms. Choi will also be retried, as the Supreme Court struck down part of the lower-court ruling.
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A federal appeals court overturned that conviction last year, and Slatten was then retried on the murder charge.
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Ms. Choi will also be retried, as the Supreme Court struck down part of the lower-court ruling.
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She said none of the cases will be retried, and that she expects the process to be a formality.
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A court later retried a Canadian who had already been jailed for drug smuggling and sentenced him to death.
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The men later confessed to the crime in a magazine interview, but weren&apost retried and are now dead.
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This resulted in an appellate court dismissing the charges with prejudice, which prevents the case from ever being retried.
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Three other former Barclays executives charged alongside Varley are to be retried at a date yet to be determined.
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On the night of the homicide, they didn't have much more than the confession, so they never retried it.
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As for whether Mr. Skakel should be retried if the conviction is not reinstated, he said he felt conflicted.
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O'Mahoney is due to be released on bail while a decision on whether he will be retried is made.
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As a result many of these cases were retried on grounds of improper jury selection and Fifth Amendment violations.
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Mohammed and Hilal, who are not in Egypt, would be retried in the event of their surrender to Egyptian authorities.
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A Chinese court later retried a Canadian man who had been jailed for drug smuggling and sentenced him to death.
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But PEOPLE learns he was retried after an appeals court determined police had unlawfully obtained the 29-year-old's confession.
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A Chinese court later retried a Canadian man who had been jailed for drugs smuggling and sentenced him to death.
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Wilson was retried and reconvicted of the murders five years later, but filed a civil lawsuit against Burge for torture.
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He recovered and was eventually retried, only to be convicted and sentenced to death again, by another all-white jury.
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But unlike a court of law where a not guilty verdict cannot be retried, Title IX investigations do allow double jeopardy.
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The 8-0 decision left open the possibility for McDonnell to be retried, but in the meantime, his conviction was vacated.
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He was retried on both charges and got a hung jury again on the sabotage count but was convicted of burglary.
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Lawyers for Sedlak, Garske and Gottcent argued prosecutors made that choice just to prevent Ackerly from being severed and retried separately.
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Mr. Skelos, 70, a Republican from Long Island, had been retried after an earlier conviction, in 2015, was overturned on appeal.
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Dr. Hill was murdered by a hit man in the driveway of his River Oaks mansion before he could be retried.
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General Ríos Montt's conviction was overturned on a technicality and he was being retried when he died last year at 91.
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While in December two separate Canadian businessmen were arrested in China, and a third was retried and sentenced to death (he's appealing).
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Cosby will be retried for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand this November after the first trial ended with a hung jury.
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Irvin, who was retried and convicted again, was paroled in 1968 and found dead a year later under suspicious circumstances, Farmer said.
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A second argument, that a retried execution would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, was also rebuffed by a majority of the court.
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Additionally, a Chinese court later retried a Canadian who had been jailed for drug smuggling and sentenced him to death reut.rs/2RKgaRJ.
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In February, the Supreme Court ordered Hernandez released and retried because the original judge's decision was based on prejudice and insufficient evidence.
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He was retried for awhile ... his last credit is the TV movie, "The President's Man" which starred Chuck Norris back in 2000.
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Since then, multiple Canadians in China have been detained -- and one citizen was rapidly retried on drug charges then sentenced to death.
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Prosecutors may also have a third bite at the apple if the Manafort jury in this case deadlocks and he is retried.
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"After careful consideration, I have decided that the Tensing case will be retried," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said in a statement Tuesday.
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Van Houten's 1971 conviction and death sentence were initially overturned on appeal, but she was retried, convicted and sentenced to prison in 1978.
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Both Bryant and Milam later admitted to a journalist that they had killed Till, but they were not retried and are now dead.
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Even if he were to be retried and convicted, he could not face any additional prison time since he already completed his sentence.
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Melgen, who was separately convicted last year in Florida of perpetrating a massive Medicare fraud, will also be retried, the Justice Department said.
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He still has to be retried on the remaining 280 charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team because the jury was deadlocked.
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Kellen Winslow Jr. will be retried on the 8 remaining counts that weren't decided by the jury in his rape case, officials say.
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Another officer in that case, convicted of taking part in a cover-up, had his conviction overturned as well and was never retried.
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Mr. Slatten was retried and convicted of first-degree murder last year, and Judge Lamberth sentenced him last month to life in prison.
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The court has sent the cases back to McLennan County, where the district attorney&aposs office will determine whether the defendants can be retried.
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Earlier this year, the country's Supreme Court said her case would not be retried, as judges rejected a petition to review their previous decision.
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He is adamant that he's "grown" from the incident and does not believe he should be retried in a public social media court today.
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J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant Both Bryant and Milam later admitted to a journalist that they had murdered Till, but they were not retried.
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In fairness, the constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy from its inception envisioned a person being retried if the jury is discharged without a verdict.
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"Justice will come," she said, expressing her hope that the court would allow more bad-act witnesses to testify when they retried the case.
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Then on Monday, Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was retried and sentenced to death over drug smuggling charges in a one-day trial in Dalian.
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LONDON — Two former Barclays traders will be retried in February on charges that they plotted to manipulate a benchmark interest rate known as Libor.
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The defense team said prosecutors had violated due process rules and undermined the entire case, which they said could not now properly be retried.
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It nonetheless said he could be retried for cheating customers, and said the trial judge should allow more defense testimony on what they were thinking.
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Two of the four remaining defendants from that group were retried and acquitted, and two others pleaded guilty last week to obstructing a court order.
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Indeed, the justices sent the suit back to the lower court, allowing for the possibility that Mr. McDonnell could be retried using clearer jury instructions.
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In Wednesday's decision, the Court of Cassation accepted appeals from the defendants filed last year against a lower criminal court ruling, and ordered them retried.
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Later, both men admitted to the crime in an interview with Look Magazine, but could not be retried because of the law's double-jeopardy protections.
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It is worth noting, however, that after the June 2017 Cosby mistrial, he was subsequently convicted about a year later when the case was retried.
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But the Kentucky Supreme Court threw out her murder conviction in 2015 on the grounds that Shouse should be retried on a second-degree manslaughter charge.
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Separately, Canadian man Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who had previously been found guilty of trafficking drugs to China, was rapidly retried in January and sentenced to death.
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I tried and retried every single one of those 11 tip pairs, but my ears rejected them all and so I was left disappointed and frustrated.
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The case was retried, and the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to life in prison, without parole.
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After a jury could not reach a verdict in Mr. Seabrook's trial in November, a mistrial was declared, and he is to be retried this month.
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Meanwhile, Kumail Nanjiani, who stars in the HBO show "Silicon Valley" posed a question on Twitter that will probably come up when the case is retried.
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China has arrested two Canadians on national security grounds and retried another citizen who had already been convicted on drugs charges, this time sentencing him to death.
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The man, a 55-year-old retried pediatrician, spoke with BuzzFeed News on Saturday and asked to be referred to only as Dr. Gary, his first name.
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Mr. Nucera was convicted of making false statements to the F.B.I. The United States attorney in New Jersey said he would be retried on the outstanding counts.
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In recent months, Mill's lawyers have argued that due to alleged false testimony from one of the officers involved in Mill's 20143 arrest, the case should be retried.
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Mubarak was retried in 2014 but the court acquitted him and the co-defendants, saying the prosecution's initial decision to charge Mubarak lacked legal basis, Al-Ahram said.
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"Chinese law stipulates that during an appeal, only if new evidence is discovered and retried can there be an increase in the severity of a sentence," Zhang said.
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For the full details, including the story of a man who was tried for Mya's murder, released from suspicion, and then retried, check out this story on Fusion.
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"Those deadlocked charges left a mistrial that could theoretically be retried on the federal or state level without a double jeopardy problem, with or without Gamble," they wrote.
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Cases in the CJR may be appealed, not retried, and the court found Lagarde negligent for not appealing the case, and thus, for the misuse of public funds.
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Amnesty International, which called the trial a "cruel farce," said the 440 defendants convicted on Monday should be retried in a proceeding that meets international standards, or released.
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Although the juror said he felt Cosby had already "paid dearly" for his alleged crime and shouldn't be retried, District Attorney Kevin Steele has vowed to do just that.
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Judges were dismissive of the case against Bibi in the petition to have her case retried, saying the crime had not been established and listing inconsistencies in witness testimonies.
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While Wisconsin courts ruled Dassey's confession was voluntary, a federal magistrate judge and a three-judge appeals court panel disagreed, saying he should be retried or released from prison.
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Amnesty International said in a statement that the cases should be retried in a civilian court in proceedings that complied with international human rights law and fair trial standards.
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China subsequently detained two Canadian citizens, and this month a court retried a Canadian man who previously had been found guilty of drug smuggling, and sentenced him to death.
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While Wisconsin courts ruled Dassey&aposs confession was voluntary, a federal magistrate judge and a three-judge appeals court panel disagreed, saying he should be retried or released from prison.
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If the Tenth Circuit's decision stands, Murphy could be retried by federal prosecutors for Jacobs's murder—but not sentenced to death for it if he's found guilty a second time.
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Her supporters note that there are five trials to go (Officer Porter will be retried), and say it is unfair to render judgment on her until they have all concluded.
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Over the past decade, many of the cases were retried after the government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found them to be built on fabricated evidence and confessions extracted through torture.
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Two federal courts, including a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, held that Dassey's confession was involuntary and that he had to be released or retried.
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Federal prosecutors retried the case in a three-week trial last December, with a jury taking just two days to return convictions on nine counts and acquittals on five others.
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After a delay as Cosby's legal team reconfigured, the case is set to be retried this April in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and jury selection will begin at the end of March.
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After the Alberta Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in 21, Mr. Barton appealed the decision to Canada's Supreme Court, which ruled on Friday that he should be retried for manslaughter.
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Accordingly, he concluded that the only remedy to ensure due process and the fair administration of justice was to dismiss Ellsberg's case "with prejudice," meaning that Ellsberg could not be retried.
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Related: Baltimore reaches tentative $6.4 million deal with Freddie Gray's family Officer William Porter was to be retried in September, after his case ended in a mistrial last December, and Sargent.
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Such hopes were dashed on August 29th, when the Supreme Court overturned the ruling by a lower court that had suspended Mr Lee's prison sentence, and ordered his case to be retried.
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Federal prosecutors said they intended to move quickly to retry Mr. Skelos and his son, just as they have done with Mr. Silver, who is currently scheduled to be retried in April.
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While Mr. Navalny is free for the moment to campaign, the criminal case will be retried by a court in Kirov, which could reinstate the conviction and again bar him from office.
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Though the case occurred two years ago, the shocking ruling was brought to light on Monday after Italy's highest appeal court ordered the decision be overturned and the case retried, The Guardian reports.
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She and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, also accused in Kercher's slaying, were retried and again found guilty but were ultimately set free when Italy's highest court threw out their convictions in 2015.
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Washington nearly took the lead in the bottom of the eighth, loading the bases with no outs, but Miami right-hander Drew Steckenrider retried the next three batters and kept the game tied.
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Both men were retried and convicted in July after their original convictions were overturned by a federal appeals panel, which cited a 2016 Supreme Court decision that narrowed the legal definition of corruption.
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As the statute of limitations on Jang's case runs out at the end of March, people campaigned on social media to get Jang's case retried by getting South Korea's president to extend the time.
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Another former football player, Brandon Vandenburg, 23, was also retried, in June, and was found guilty of five counts of aggravated rape, two counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of unlawful photography.
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In the case that the knife is identified as the murder weapon, Simpson will not be retried for murder due to double jeopardy, which prevents people from being tried for the same crime twice.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. peace activist found guilty of laughing during Attorney General Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing early this year had her conviction thrown out on Friday and will be retried, her lawyer said.
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By a 4-20003 vote, the court rejected a October 2013 ruling by a lower court judge that Skakel's trial lawyer did not provide an adequate defense, and that the defendant should be retried.
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"China is going to face lots of questions about why this particular person, of this particular nationality, had to be retried at this particular time," Human Rights Watch's China director Sophie Richardson told Reuters.
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If Mr. Skelos, a Republican, and Mr. Silver, a Democrat, are retried by federal authorities — as they have indicated — the cases may form the backbone of a Murderers' Row of corruption trials next year.
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The now 45-year-old testified to those same exact details when she took the stand twice – during Cosby's first trial, which ended in a hung jury last year, and again when he was retried.
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The panel, from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Thursday that Dassey should be released unless he is retried within 90 days or the state appeals further, which they have said they will.
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In compelling Porter to testify under this limited immunity, prosecutors can't use the officer's testimony in the Goodson and White cases, or anything learned from that testimony, against Porter when his own case is retried.
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The D.A.'s Office just filed new docs in Pennsylvania Superior Court stating Judge Brinkley's appearance of bias has been evident throughout the case ... and therefore, Meek should be retried in his probation violation case.
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It's not difficult for her to convince them to participate, after she explains to them that their cases will be retried if she's successful (not to mention the fact that they could be entitled to damages).
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But he was released from prison after 20133 years in 2013, when a judge ruled that his lawyer at the time, Mickey Sherman, had not provided an adequate defense and that Mr. Skakel should be retried.
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"China is going to face lots of questions about why this particular person, of this particular nationality, had to be retried at this particular time," Human Rights Watch's Washington-based China director Sophie Richardson told Reuters.
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Ms. Martins led the team that retried Sheldon Silver, the powerful former Democratic speaker of the New York State Assembly, who was convicted on corruption charges in May after a previous conviction was overturned last year.
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The state retried Mr. Jack successfully — for receiving roughly $5,000 in apartment renovations from a developer he'd been friends with for years, who was also seeking city contracts — landing two misdemeanor convictions and a suspended sentence.
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Santosh Kumar Singh, a fellow law student and son of a former senior police officer, is sentenced to death, after being initially acquitted due to a lack of evidence and then retried following a public outcry. Dec.
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Hernandez, a 56-year-old former store clerk being retried for the crime after his first trial in 2015 ended with a deadlocked jury, "staked out" Etan for several days before strangling the boy to death, prosecutors said.
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And although the Russian court retried the case in February on orders from the ECHR, it "came to the very same conclusions using all the same evidence ... He still didn't have the right to bring witnesses," Smith said.
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After being convicted in 2014 and seeing the case overturned because of a legal error by the trial judge, he was retried in 2016 and once again found guilty, receiving the same two-year prison term as before.
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Mr. Tensing, who is white, is being retried for murder and voluntary manslaughter in the death of Samuel DuBose, whom he pulled over after he noticed a missing license plate and, minutes later, killed with a single gunshot.
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A man whose conviction in the 1990 killing of a tourist on a Manhattan subway platform was thrown out after evidence emerged raising doubts about his role in the crime will not be retried, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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The two white men who were accused of murdering Emmett in 1955 — and later admitted it in a Look Magazine interview — were acquitted that year by an all-white, all-male jury, and so could not be retried.
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Calling the evidence for the conviction and sentencing in 1995 of 20-year-old Nie Shubin "unreliable and incomplete," the Supreme People's Court ordered the case to be retried "openly and fairly" - but did not give a trial date.
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Judge Winifred Y. Smith, of California's Alameda County Superior Court, ruled that the case of Alva and Alberta Pilliod should be retried if the parties cannot agree on a reduced award at a hearing to be held on Friday.
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John W. Davis ran for president even while he was a member of Wan's defense team, and J. Edgar Hoover, who lived down the block from the crime scene, was enlisted to track down witnesses when Wan was retried.
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The price has been steep for three Canadians in particular: Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, both detained in China and accused of threatening national security, as well as Robert Schellenberg, who was hastily retried this week for drug smuggling.
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A Canadian man sentenced to 15 years for drug smuggling in China has been quickly retried and given a death sentence in a move that may be a response to the legal tensions between China and Canada following the Dec.
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CNN legal analyst Kelly Phelps said late last year that double jeopardy -- a defense that prevents a criminal defendant from being retried on the same charges after a verdict -- did not technically apply in the Pistorius' case for two reasons.
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The timing of the book, as Mr. Skakel awaits the Connecticut Supreme Court's ruling, seems designed to send a signal that a new defense team would put forward a blizzard of theories and new evidence were Mr. Skakel to be retried.
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She writes she has recurring nightmares about a particular imaginary scenario: Syed is retried and found not guilty, but subsequently, he confesses to Chapman than he actually committed the murder and then begins to strangle her – the same way he allegedly strangled Lee.
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Prosecutors retried Mr. Litvak, and he was convicted on one count of securities fraud, involving a misstatement about the price Jefferies paid for residential mortgage-backed securities that resulted in an additional gain of about $73,000 for Jefferies on the $23.6 million transaction.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a former Puerto Rico state senator's claim that he cannot be retried on corruption charges involving a trip to Las Vegas to watch a boxing bout after his original conviction was thrown out.
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Official sources who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed a report by Algerian state news agency APS saying that Beghal, who was convicted in absentia in Algeria in 2003 of belonging to a terrorist group, would be retried now that he was in the country.
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But by upholding a legal safeguard against racism in the justice system, the case's impact could extend far beyond Foster (who may be retried as a result of the decision), potentially reverberating across a criminal justice system that many argue — and statistics show — is racially biased.
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With the conviction in the books and Manafort set to face a lengthy prison sentence, he was still facing at least one more trial (in Washington) and potentially a second (if Mueller retried the Virginia mistrial counts), Manafort finally came to the table — and agreed to cooperate.
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With the conviction in the books and Manafort set to face a likely prison sentence, he was still facing at least one more trial (in Washington) and potentially a second (if Mueller retried the Virginia mistrial counts), Manafort finally came to the table — and agreed to cooperate.
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In their closing arguments this week, New York City prosecutors reportedly claimed Pedro Hernandez — the 56-year-old former store clerk being retried for the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, who disappeared in 1979 — "staked out" his victim for several days before strangling the boy to death.
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This month alone, separate juries have convicted Mr. Skelos, the former Senate majority leader who was retried on bribery and extortion charges after his 2015 conviction was overturned; and Alain E. Kaloyeros, the principal architect of Mr. Cuomo's signature economic development project to revitalize upstate and western New York.
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That scrutiny will only intensify as two former top legislative leaders, Sheldon N. Silver and Dean G. Skelos, are retried in the coming months on corruption charges, and another former state official and friend of the governor's, Alain E. Kaloyeros, is tried in June in a different bribery scheme.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A former South Carolina policeman charged with murder for fatally shooting a black man last year as he ran away from the officer will be retried starting on March 1, according to a court notice released on ThursdayMichael Slager's state murder trial ended in mistrial on Dec.
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Gene Ryan, president of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, said he was pleased with the judge's ruling and took the occasion to lambaste State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and demand she call off the "malicious" prosecutions of the two officers who remain to be tried and the one scheduled to be retried.
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McDonnell led to high-profile convictions being overturned — including those of former leaders of the New York state legislature Dean Skelos (R) and Sheldon Silver (D), and former Congress member William Jefferson (D-LA), who was caught with $90,000 in his freezer — most which will now be retried with new jury instructions.
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In an interview with CNN, Mexican Senator Lupita Murguia, who led the special commission investigating the case of the missing students for Mexico's lower chamber of congress where she then served, called the release of suspects grave, noting that those freed cannot be retried for the same charges in a later investigation.
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Though vindicated for now, Mr. Menendez could still be retried by federal prosecutors with a new trial unfolding next year in the midst of a possible re-election campaign, but prosecutors would still have to contend with a landmark Supreme Court decision that makes it harder to prove an elected official engaged in bribery.
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In addition to Mr. Silver, two other corruption defendants are being retried: Mr. Skelos's case is scheduled for June, and in July, prosecutors will retry Norman Seabrook, the former head of the New York City correction officers' union, whose case ended in a mistrial in November after the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
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The plea, part of an agreement he made with prosecutors to receive a lighter prison sentence of 12 to 18 years, came just hours before Winslow was set to be retried on charges relating to assaulting those two women and a third woman, with the potential for even harsher penalties, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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In a decision issued Thursday, a three-judge federal appeals panel upheld a lower court ruling that the confession of Brendan Dassey — whose case was the focus of Netflix's hit true crime documentary series Making a Murderer — had been illegally obtained and that the 27-year-old should be retried for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach or freed from his confinement, PEOPLE confirms.
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