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...To date, only 86 convictions have been overturned. Read more on the Post Office here....
...To date, only 86 convictions have been overturned. Read more on Post Office here...
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...There aren’t the lawyers, administrators or judges to deal with large numbers of wrongful convictions”....
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...The Post Office in its letter insisted “the 700 figure is not a definitive number of wrongful convictions”, adding that it could not form a view in 118 cases ahead of an appeal because the evidence available...
...convictions of more than 700 former sub-postmasters....
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...A conviction in the latter case could bar him from running for office, analysts say, marking an abrupt end to the political career of a man who as a federal judge in 2017 oversaw the conviction and almost...
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...Almost all plead guilty to avoid long, complex and expensive trials, contributing to a conviction rate above 90 per cent....
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