Andrew Mallard was convicted for the murder of jeweller Pamela Lawrence in 1994 after eight unrecorded hours of police interrogation and a brief recorded "confession" that followed. In 2005, the High Court of Australia was advised that the prosecution and/or police had withheld evidence that showed his innocence, and overturned his conviction. [29] Mallard was released from prison. A "cold case" review of the murder conducted after Mallard's release implicated Simon Rochford as the actual offender, and Mallard was exonerated.

a b Grimes, William (August 6, 2009). "Donald Marshall Jr., Symbol of Bias, Dies at 55". The New York Times . Retrieved August 6, 2009. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) brought significant budget cuts and partially or wholly removed entire areas of civil law from the scope of legal aid – including most benefits, debt, housing, employment and immigration advice, as well as family law that doesn’t involve domestic violence.Convicted Cardinal – Pell's name scraped from his Australian hometown". Reuters. February 27, 2019 . Retrieved September 2, 2019. Twenty-five years have passed since Kennedy published Eve Was Framed, the groundbreaking precursor to her latest work. And while there has been some change – much of it initiated by Kennedy herself – progress has been halting and deep-seated reform is still urgently needed. “The smell of the gentlemen’s club permeates every crevice of the Inns of Court,” writes Kennedy. And it stinks. Unbeknownst to her parents, documents presented to the Supreme Court of Appeal described her as 22 years old. Her birth certificate indicated her age was 16. Amnesty International and other organizations declared her execution to be a crime against humanity and against children of the world. [76] Amnesty International denounced Francisco Marcial's imprisonment as resulting from a wrongful prosecution. The group declared her a prisoner of conscience, claiming there was no credible evidence against her, and that she had been prosecuted because of her gender, poverty, race, and inability to speak or understand the Spanish language. Convicted for the killing of two Carabinieri, released when another Carabiniere revealed that the confession had been obtained through torture.

Norman, Cushla (October 8, 2022). "Peter Ellis case: Supreme Court quashes child abuse convictions". 1 News . Retrieved October 11, 2022. Pietro Valpreda, an anarchist condemned for the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, was finally found innocent sixteen years later. He was framed since it was planned to blame the crime on the radical left, while it was committed by neo-fascist groups as the first step of the strategy of tension. Diosa-Villa, Rachel (2014). "Inequity in Post-exoneration Remedies for Wrongful Conviction" (PDF). University of New South Wales Law Journal. 37 (1): 349–350.London-born Kercher was studying in Italy when she was found murdered in the home she shared with Knox. Knox, who was from Seattle, her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and Ivorian-born Rudy Guede were charged with the murder. Forensic evidence, including DNA from feces at the scene and fingerprints linked Guede to the scene, but the cases against Knox and Sollecito were controversial. Knox and Kercher were acquainted with Guede, but Knox and Sollecito claim they were at Sollecito's house at the time of the murder. Prosecutors argued Kercher was killed as part of a sex game gone wrong. [88]

In 2001, 45-year-old Marie-Agnès Bedot was murdered by stabbing. Nineteen-year-old Marc Machin was convicted of the murder based on circumstantial evidence and a forced confession. In 2008 David Sagno, a homeless man, admitted murdering Bedot and the police found Sagno's DNA on Bedot's clothes. Machin's conviction was quashed and he was cleared in 2012. [71] Scottish nurse who was convicted in 1974 of the murder of a patient with insulin after being inspired by the plot of A Man Called Ironside. She was released on appeal in 1975, despite three appeal court judges saying there was ample evidence to support the conviction, as the trial judge had inadvertently misled the jury in his final summary. [146] The appeal court judges said that it was an omission that "a few words could have cured". [146] Apart from the case prosecuted, another 23 cases were deemed suspicious by investigators. [147] Although acquitted, McTavish's case often is mentioned in lectures at medical colleges in Britain, and is cited in textbooks and academic papers about forensic science and medical malpractice. [148] [149] [150] McTavish, now known as Jessie Gordon, is believed to have been the inspiration for serial killer nurse Colin Norris. [146] How can you be in custody if you simply withdrew from a crime that was being committed? How can you be in prison because you were in the park but were nowhere near the murder that was being committed? That is the kind of injustice that is being done in the name of joint enterprise and it has to end.” Canadian Cases Of Wrongful Conviction". CityNews. Rogers Broadcasting. January 31, 2007. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011 . Retrieved August 16, 2010.a b Stephanie Kirchgaessner. "Meredith Kercher murder: Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito acquitted". The Guardian . Retrieved March 28, 2015.

The rape and murder of 10-year-old Lena Sløgedal Paulsen and 8-year-old Stine Sofie Austegard Sørstrønen Butt, Craig; Cooper, Adam; Grieve, Charlotte (August 21, 2019). "George Pell appeal LIVE: Cardinal's appeal is dismissed". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved August 21, 2019. Moldaver, J.A. (March 2009). "Her Majesty the Queen Respondent and Romeo Joseph Phillion" (PDF). Court of Appeal for Ontario.Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user.