reopen a case

After conviction and initial appeal, reopening a case is a difficult procedure.

Criminal justice experts said the obstacles to reopening a case are daunting.

And those conclusions have reopened a case that the Bruces fought hard to keep alive.

Recantations undermine that certainty, if all it takes to reopen a case is to get witnesses to revise their testimony.

The testimony of a degenerate criminal and an unrelated double murder do not constitute a reason to reopen a case successfully solved five years ago.

The arrest of Mr. Martinez reopens a case whose trail of clues had long gone cold.

Now one of the lawyers has filed the first motion to reopen a case that Justice Garson presided over.

Now an admission of a gangland hit could be all that the Director of Public Prosecutions requires to reopen a case.

"More and more, tribunals are deciding they can reopen a case internally and make justice if it is in order to comply with the Inter-American system."

In 2002 Dortmund prosecutor Ultrich Maaos reopened a case against the people responsible for the massacre.

Once a jury has reached a verdict or a judge has ruled, lawyers say, the odds are overwhelmingly against reopening a case, no matter how compelling the new information is.

B1 Organ-Trafficking Case Federal prosecutors have reopened a case against two Chinese citizens accused of trafficking in human organs taken from executed Chinese prisoners.

In addition, unlike common law jurisdictions, higher courts have the power of supervision and guidance, which means that on their own initiative they can reopen a case that has been decided at a lower level.

It is extremely difficult to reopen a case, absent some showing of new evidence or fraud or extremely unusual circumstances, and Mr. Coleman acknowledges that his clients are facing a very difficult argument.

Diamond jumps right in (it beats odd jobs in the supermarket), against the wishes of his superiors, who want him just to get the girl back and forget about reopening a case that could make the department look bad.

But today, Acting Judge W. J. Human of Pretoria Supreme Court ruled that he did not have jurisdiction to reopen a case in which his court had already delivered a judgment.

Welfare recipients and applicants are required to produce the same documents (birth certificates of dependents, documents establishing citizenship) each time they appear at a recertification meeting, reopen a case or reapply for benefits after being rejected.

We know that this is not the best solution in absolute terms, but we know that the in absentia procedure also makes it possible to reopen a case when the accused or the convicted person is arrested.

Sergei Zuyev, who owned the elite 'Tri Kita' and 'Grand' complexes,was arrested along with four colleagues, on suspicion of importing contraband goods, reopening a case initially launched in September 2000.

Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court expanded the ability to reopen a case in light of new evidence of innocence.

The board has never reopened a case after the deadline for appeal - 30 days after the final ruling - had passed, said Lee Fawkes, its director, and there is no guarantee that it will reopen Miss Anthony's case.

This time, a C.I.A. deputy, Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), pressures her boss, Ward Abbott (Mr. Cox), to reopen a case that was closed two years earlier and bring Jason down.

A high court judge has reopened a case against four men suspected of having links to Al Qaeda who were arrested in January but released when the supposed chemical weapons material found in their possession turned out to be laundry soap and other household products.

Last week, the South Carolina Supreme Court said that the estate of a man whose leg was crushed in a 1990 Bronco II rollover, Ray H. Chewning Jr., could seek to reopen a case he lost a decade ago.

The defamation lawsuit against three advisers of Tawana Brawley lurched to an early halt today as objections echoed through the courtroom, the judge fretted openly about the elusiveness of progress and the defendants pressed harder to reopen a case that was closed almost a decade ago.