Wrongful conviction review
Definition
A post-conviction process in which a court, review commission, or independent body re-examines the evidence supporting a conviction. In England and Wales this is conducted by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC); analogous bodies exist in Canada, New Zealand, and some US states.
Related terms
- Contextual bias
- The influence of case-relevant background information (suspect financial difficulties, police intelligence) on the direction of an examiner's technical analysis. Demonstrated experimentally for...
- Duty of impartiality
- The obligation that an expert witness owes to the court rather than to the party that retained them. Codified in England and...
- Fabrication of evidence
- The deliberate creation of false scientific results or the falsification of existing results for use in legal proceedings. It is the most...
- Sequential unmasking
- An information-sequencing protocol in which the examiner receives the questioned material first, completes and documents the analysis before receiving the known standards,...
- Witness immunity
- A common-law protection that historically shielded expert witnesses from civil liability for statements made in judicial proceedings. In England and Wales it...
Explained in
- Expert Liability, Bias and MisconductA post-conviction process in which a court, review commission, or independent body re-examines the evidence supporting a conviction. In England and Wales this...