Tag: Convictions

Convictions how I learned what matters most


Free Download Marcus Borg, "Convictions: how I learned what matters most"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0062269984, 0062269976 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.7 mb
On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the renowned scholar Marcus J. Borg shares how he formed his bedrock religious beliefs, contending that Christians in America are at their best when they focus on hope and transformation and so shows how we can return to what really matters most. The result is a manifesto for all progressive Christians who seek the best path for following Jesus today.

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Reasons to Doubt Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission


Free Download Carolyn Hoyle, "Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission"
English | ISBN: 0198794576 | 2019 | 416 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1 + 27 MB
This book reveals what happens to applications for post-conviction review when those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland who believe they are wrongfully convicted apply to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the only body that can refer a case back to the Court of Appeal once appellants’ opportunities for direct appeal are exhausted. While the Court is obliged to hear all such referrals, the Commission can only refer a case where it believes there is a ‘real possibility’ that the Court will quash the conviction. The first empirical study of all stages of decision-making within the Commission, this book starts from the premise that the test applied by the Commission (the ‘real possibility test’) is not inflexible. Though created by statute and refined through case law, it must be determined on a case-by-case basis, drawing too on cultural and structural variables, alongside fresh evidence gathered by the Commission.

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