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GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE Convict Appellate RightsA resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Description: The World Assembly, CONSCIOUS of the possibility of innocents being wrongfully convicted of crimes which they did not commit, BELIEVING that anyone wrongfully convicted of a crime should have a chance to appeal that conviction, Hereby DEFINES "convict" as a person who has been declared criminally responsible for one or more illegal acts, DECLARES that all member-states shall create a legal mechanism by which convicts may appeal their conviction, REQUIRES member-states to allow such appeals when one or more of the following is true;
PLACES the duty of deciding whether there are sufficiently compelling grounds for an appeal with the judiciary, PROHIBITS the limitation or restriction of the right of convicts to appeal their convictions based on time passed since conviction, AFFIRMS the right of member-states to grant broader appellate rights than those mandated by this resolution and to place a reasonable ceiling on the number of appeals that a convict may lodge. |
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