Ejemplos de uso de RECANTATIONS
1. And we don‘t usually require stagy Stalinesque recantations.
2. Prosecutors discount the significance of the recantations and argue that it is too late to present such evidence.
3. A lower–court judge had ruled last month that the recantations and other evidence discovered since Troy Davis‘s 1''1 conviction and death sentence were insufficient grounds for a new trial.
4. But state and federal courts dismissed the recantations, which were presented only in affidavits, as either too late in coming or insufficient to prove that Davis‘s trial had been unfair.
5. In rejecting Davis‘s last–ditch bid for a new trial last month, for example, a Superior Court judge cited a Georgia case law finding that a declaration "by a state witness that his former testimony was false is not cause for a new trial." Regarding the arguments to be presented to the state Supreme Court, Ewart, Davis‘s attorney, said: "We are making the legal argument that innocence matters, that recantations matter when they affect the verdict." "I‘m elated –– we‘re one step closer to people telling the truth," said Davis‘s sister, Martina Correia.