Loss of rights due to criminal conviction refers to the practice in some countries of reducing the rights of individuals who have been convicted of a...

miscarriage of justice occurs when an unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, such as the conviction and punishment of a person for...

consequences of criminal conviction are the additional civil state penalties, mandated by statute, that attach to a criminal conviction. They are not part of the...

mortuus) is the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony or due to an act by the government of a country that...

consequences of criminal conviction and the loss of rights due to conviction for criminal offense. Proponents[who?] of disenfranchising those convicted of crimes...

(Amendment V) to the United States Constitution creates several constitutional rights, limiting governmental powers focusing on criminal procedures. It...

government. Penalties for conviction of a violation of a criminal law typically include being sent to prison, jail or some other form of incarceration. Civil...

[citation needed] Employers retain the right to lawfully consider an applicant's or employee's criminal conviction(s) for employment purposes e.g., hiring...

of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) advising them of their right to silence...

acts as non-criminal, it may simply prohibit prosecution; or it may enact that there is to be no punishment, but leave the underlying conviction technically...

later determined not to be criminal acts. In the last ten years (as at 2023), nearly 900 New Zealanders have had their convictions overturned. The following...

Thus, Miranda's conviction was overturned. The Court also made clear what must happen if a suspect chooses to exercise their rights: If the individual...

was found guilty on one count of violating Chin's civil rights and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. Ronald...

person may have their voting rights suspended or withdrawn due to the conviction of a criminal offense. The actual class of crimes that results in disenfranchisement...

plea in criminal court, whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence, but accepts imposition of a sentence...

French criminal procedure (procédure pénale) focuses on how individuals accused of crimes are dealt with in the French criminal justice system: how people...

in war crimes conviction of ex-Congo official". The Washington Post. Brouwer, Anne-Marie de (2005). Supranational criminal prosecution of sexual violence:...

that involved death, loss of liberty, exile, loss of civil rights, or seizure of property—the trial was before a jury of 1,001 to 1,501 dikastai. In such...

Carver (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). Additionally, she is credited in all 13 episodes of Conviction, bringing her total episode count to 110 (appearing in...

Jeopardy does not attach in a retrial of a conviction that was reversed on appeal on procedural grounds (as opposed to evidentiary insufficiency grounds)...

and may allow criminal defendants to avoid the risk of conviction at trial on a more serious charge. For example, in the legal system of the United States...

annulment of national socialist unjust verdicts in the criminal justice [de; fr]). By this supplement to the act, Nazi-era convictions of homosexuals...

judgement or decision'. Depending on the country, a criminal proceeding which ends prematurely due to error, mistake, or misconduct may end as being dismissed...

of compensation, shall not be bound by the provisions of the criminal law concerning liability to punishment or by the conviction or non-conviction of...

and three are still to start. The overview of the case-law indicates that most of the convictions were done under the joint criminal enterprise doctrine...

Robert Emmet Chambers Jr. (born September 25, 1966) is an American criminal and convicted murderer. Dubbed the Preppy Killer and the Central Park Strangler...

LGBT rights opposition is the opposition to legal rights, proposed or enacted, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Laws that LGBT...

In criminal law, the right to counsel means a defendant has a legal right to have the assistance of counsel (i.e., lawyers) and, if the defendant cannot...

motion to the Court of Appeal, seeking to reopen his case and a review of his conviction due to a change in the law regarding prosecutors' disclosure of material...

claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act. Tort law can be contrasted with criminal law, which...