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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Jannik Sinner beats Taylor Fritz for U.S. Open title weeks after doping exoneration

LA Times

Jannik Sinner started slowly at the U.S. Open, dropping the first set he played after being exonerated in a doping case no one knew about until shortly before play began at Flushing Meadows. 1-ranked Sinner beat Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 with his typical relentless baseline game to win the men’s championship at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday, less than …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Jannik Sinner plays Jack Draper in the US Open semifinals weeks after a doping exoneration

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Exoneration Of Employee In Departmental Enquiry Will Not Halt Criminal Trial Under Prevention Of Corruption Act: Karnataka High Court

Live Law

The Karnataka High Court has held that when a government employee is accused of criminal misconduct for demanding and accepting a bribe, he will have to come out clean in a trial and even if he is exonerated in a departmental enquiry, the same would not come in the way of continuing the criminal trial against him. Manjunath had challenged …

Court Sanction Case Criminal Trial Petition Lokayuktha Departmental Enquiry

7 months ago

Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration

The Independent

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7 months ago

Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and exonerated by the governor in 2022 — is suing the county that prosecuted him. “They murdered him,” Susie Williams Carter, 94, of Chester, the last surviving sibling in the family of 13 children, …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

3 retired Philadelphia detectives to stand trial in perjury case stemming from 2016 exoneration

Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Three long-retired Philadelphia police detectives must stand trial, accused of lying under oath at the 2016 retrial of a man the jury exonerated in a 1991 rape and murder. Former detectives Martin Devlin, Manuel Santiago and Frank Jastrzembski, all now in their 70s, hoped a judge would dismiss the case over evidence aired before the grand jury that …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Free of guilt: On the exoneration of former Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba and five others

The Hindu

The exoneration of former Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba and five others of the charge of having Maoist links exposes the practice of invoking stringent laws based on nothing more than a person’s likely association with or sympathy for extremist groups. They were discharged on the ground that the sanction given to prosecute them under UAPA was not valid, but …

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11 months, 1 week ago

It shouldn’t have taken a change in the law – or a TV drama – to deliver justice to the Post Office victims

The Independent

The Post Office scandal has dragged on for so long, been so traumatising for its survivors, and has – albeit latterly – provoked such public outrage that the pressure to cut the Gordian knot has grown irresistible. The recent ITV series, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, provoked a visceral reaction to the plight of hundreds of innocent people who …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Post Office scandal: How will the new law to exonerate victims of Horizon work?

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

A married couple listening to a true-crime podcast led to a man’s exoneration in the murder of a priest

LA Times

“Crime Junkies” podcast fans Harlee and Michael Gerke, left, found themselves uniquely positioned to help exonerate James Reyos, right, who was wrongly imprisoned for murder. Harlee and Michael Gerke were riveted as they listened to the “Crime Junkie” podcast’s retelling of the events that ultimately turned Reyos’ life upside down. “As soon as they told me about the case, I’m …

Crime Murder Texas Case Told Led Priest

1 year, 5 months ago

'An exoneration': Furious Trump claims 'leaked' classified doc recording proves his innocence

Raw Story

A furious Donald Trump reacted late Monday to an audio tape released by CNN that caught the former president discussing a highly classified document in his possession – and laughing about how he no longer had the power to declassify it. "The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction with the DOJ & FBI, illegally leaked and 'spun' a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Trump claims 'exoneration' after no 'mention' of him in grand jury report with redacted names

Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump declared himself innocent of election tampering because redacted portions of a Georgia special grand jury report did not mention his name. "The long awaited important sections of the Georgia report, which do not even mention President Trump's name, have nothing to do with the President because President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong," the statement said. The …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Any panel other than a JPC will be an exercise in exoneration, says Congress on Adani issue

The Hindu

Opposing the setting up of a committee to examine the regulatory mechanism post the Hindenburg-Adani allegations, the Congress on Thursday said any panel other than a Joint Parliamentary Committee would be an “exercise in legitimisation and exoneration”. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, in a statement, said that the proposal before the Supreme Court to set up a committee by the …

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$Any committee other than JPC will be exercise in \'exoneration\': Cong on Adani row$

1 year, 10 months ago

Any committee other than JPC will be exercise in \'exoneration\': Cong on Adani row

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday said a thorough investigation into the Adani issue is necessary, holding that any committee other than a JPC will be nothing but an "exercise in legitimisation and exoneration". "Where the allegations are of close, intertwined proximity between the ruling dispensation, the government of India and the Adani Group, the setting up of a committee …

Congress Committee Adani Jpc

1 year, 10 months ago

Connecticut may exonerate accused witches centuries later

Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft. “They’re talking about how this has followed their families from generation to generation and that they would love for someone just to say, ‘Hey, …

Accused Johnson Connecticut Witch Witches Salem

2 years ago

Missouri man seeks exoneration in murder; 2 others confessed

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Lamar Johnson has wrongly spent nearly three decades in prison for a St. Louis killing after a witness was coerced into falsely identifying him as the shooter, an attorney for the local prosecutor’s office told a judge Monday. Kim Gardner, who leads the same St. Louis circuit attorney’s office that secured Johnson’s 1995 murder conviction, believes he …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Suspension Period Cannot Be Treated 'Wholly Unjustified' In Case Of Partial Exoneration: Gujarat High Court

Live Law

The Gujarat High Court has dismissed the petition filed by an employee seeking that his period of suspension be treated as 'regular' on the ground that the Petitioner had been charge-sheeted and was only partially exonerated from the charges against him. Justice Biren Vaishnav observed: " Only when an employee is partially exonerated, would the authority need to decide the …

Appeal Court Penalty Order Suspension Period Petitioner

2 years, 7 months ago

Honourable Exoneration In Departmental Proceedings Would Warrant Quashing Of Criminal Prosecution Arising From Same Set Of Facts: Orissa High Court

Live Law

In a landmark decision, the Orissa High Court has held that honourable exoneration in departmental proceedings would warrant quashment of criminal prosecution which emanated from the same set of facts. While quashing criminal charges against the petitioner, a Single Judge Bench of Chief Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar held, "…in the facts and circumstances of the present case where on the …

Delhi Court Criminal West Bengal Case State High

2 years, 10 months ago

Motor Accident | Insurance Company Liable To Pay Compensation Even Upon Exoneration, May Recover From Owner Later: Telangana High Court

Live Law

The Telangana High Court recently ruled that in case of violation of insurance policy conditions, the insurer is still liable to pay the compensation to the claimant and it may recover the same from the owner of the offending vehicle later. It was contended by the counsel for claimant that in case of violation of policy conditions, the insurer is …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Can Criminal Proceedings Continue After Exoneration In Departmental Enquiry On Same Allegations? Plea In Supreme Court

Live Law

The Supreme Court has issued notice on a special leave petition which has raised the argument that criminal proceedings cannot continue after exoneration in departmental enquiry on the same allegations.The special leave petition is filed against a judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court which held that exoneration in departmental inquiry does not entitle an employee to seek quashing. The …

Supreme Court Judgment Court Criminal Criminal Proceedings Proceedings Petition

3 years, 3 months ago

'No Work No Pay Principle Not Applicable When A Provision Expressly Grants Payment of Allowances On Exoneration From Criminal Charges': Chhattisgarh High Court

Live Law

The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that when the Fundamental Rules expressly provide for the grant of full pay and allowances on the exoneration of a Government servant from punishment/criminal charges, the principle of 'No Work No Pay' would have no application.Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal remarked that the principle of 'No Work No Pay' would not override sub-rule of Rule …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Editorial: Chauvin’s conviction is not our exoneration

LA Times

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, right, stands with his defense team March 17 at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. In considering the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for second- and third-degree murder and manslaughter in the May 25, 2020, killing of George Floyd, we celebrate a system that we perceive to have worked in this …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Donald Trump impeachment: Ex-US president claims victory, but this was an escape and not an exoneration

Firstpost

Once again, former president Donald Trump beat the rap and once again he wasted no time claiming victory. “There’s no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said. Seven Senate Republicans voted to convict Trump, the most senators of a president’s own party to turn against him in an …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Criminal Prosecution On Same Allegations Cannot Continue If Exoneration In Departmental Proceedings Is On Merits: SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law

The Supreme Court has reiterated that, in case of exoneration in departmental proceedings on merits and where the allegation is found to be not sustainable at all and the person held innocent, criminal prosecution on the same set of facts and circumstances cannot be allowed to continue.Standard of proof in a departmental proceeding, being based on preponderance of probability is …

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Jannik Sinner beats Taylor Fritz for U.S. Open title weeks after doping exoneration

Jannik Sinner plays Jack Draper in the US Open semifinals weeks after a doping exoneration

Exoneration Of Employee In Departmental Enquiry Will Not Halt Criminal Trial Under Prevention Of Corruption Act: Karnataka High Court

Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration

Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration

3 retired Philadelphia detectives to stand trial in perjury case stemming from 2016 exoneration

Free of guilt: On the exoneration of former Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba and five others

It shouldn’t have taken a change in the law – or a TV drama – to deliver justice to the Post Office victims

Post Office scandal: How will the new law to exonerate victims of Horizon work?

A married couple listening to a true-crime podcast led to a man’s exoneration in the murder of a priest

'An exoneration': Furious Trump claims 'leaked' classified doc recording proves his innocence

Trump claims 'exoneration' after no 'mention' of him in grand jury report with redacted names

Any panel other than a JPC will be an exercise in exoneration, says Congress on Adani issue

Any committee other than JPC will be exercise in \'exoneration\': Cong on Adani row

Connecticut may exonerate accused witches centuries later

Missouri man seeks exoneration in murder; 2 others confessed

Suspension Period Cannot Be Treated 'Wholly Unjustified' In Case Of Partial Exoneration: Gujarat High Court

Honourable Exoneration In Departmental Proceedings Would Warrant Quashing Of Criminal Prosecution Arising From Same Set Of Facts: Orissa High Court

Motor Accident | Insurance Company Liable To Pay Compensation Even Upon Exoneration, May Recover From Owner Later: Telangana High Court

Can Criminal Proceedings Continue After Exoneration In Departmental Enquiry On Same Allegations? Plea In Supreme Court

'No Work No Pay Principle Not Applicable When A Provision Expressly Grants Payment of Allowances On Exoneration From Criminal Charges': Chhattisgarh High Court

Editorial: Chauvin’s conviction is not our exoneration

Donald Trump impeachment: Ex-US president claims victory, but this was an escape and not an exoneration

Criminal Prosecution On Same Allegations Cannot Continue If Exoneration In Departmental Proceedings Is On Merits: SC [Read Judgment]