5 d. ago Dani Alves' model wife breaks silence with emotional social media post

Dani Alves' wife Joana Sanz has taken to social media to issue a response to the news that the former Barcelona star has been sensationally cleared of raping a woman at a Catalan nightclub.

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7 d. ago Former Brazil footballer Dani Alves has rape conviction quashed after appeal

Ex-player was initially sentenced in February 2024Court rules unanimously that conviction was unsafeThe former Brazil international Dani Alves has had his conviction for rape overturned on appeal.In February 2024, a court sentenced Alves to a minimum sentence of four years and six months for the rape of a 23-year-old woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. As he had already spent more than a year on remand, Alves was released under legal supervision shortly afterwards. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Dani Alves’ sexual assault conviction overturned by Spanish court on appeal

A court last year found him guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022

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7 d. ago Dani Alves’ rape conviction overturned by Spanish court on appeal

The former Barcelona and Brazil right back was previously found guilty of sexual assault in a nightclub in 2022

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7 d. ago Dani Alves cleared of raping woman as appeal rules on 'contradictions' in case

Ex-Barcelona and Brazil full-back Dani Alves has had his conviction of rape overturned by a top court in Spain's Catalonia region after 'contradictions' in the case

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1 week ago A Texas woman was on death row for 27 years. But questions over a key witness could have her soon walk free from prison

Brittany Holberg’s murder conviction has been passed down to the district court after the prosecution failed to provide a key piece of evidence: their lead witness was a paid informant, James Liddell writes.

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1 week ago ‘It’s a new kind of prison’: Amanda Knox on redemption, rage – and her unlikely friendship with the prosecutor who hounded her

Ten years ago she was finally cleared of the brutal murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia. But is Knox really free?• ‘I call us the Sisterhood of Ill Repute’: read an exclusive extract from her new memoirAmanda Knox says she is one of the lucky ones. She and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito had their convictions for the murder of Meredith Kercher overturned for the second and final time in 2015. She now presents a successful podcast called Labyrinths, is a TV producer and bestselling author, does standup comedy and campaigns against miscarriages of justice. She is married to Christopher Robinson, a writer, whom she adores, and they have two gorgeous toddlers. Life could not be much better or fuller. Her new book is called Free. But it could just as easily be called Still Not Free.Knox’s search for freedom has led her down surprising paths. Most surprising was her decision to write to and then befriend Giuliano Mignini, the conspiracy-theorist prosecutor who crea...

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2 w. ago Chloe Brockett breaks silence as boyfriend Jack Fincham is spared jail sentence

Jack successfully overturned his six-week jail sentence after appealing against his conviction for owning a dangerously out-of-control dog.

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2 w. ago Real possibility that Letby’s convictions may be overturned, say former bosses

Former senior hospital managers have called for the public inquiry to be halted after Letby’s case was passed to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

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3 w. ago Woman on death row for 27 years has conviction overturned after new information

Evidence not given in court violated Brittany Holberg's right to a fair trial.

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3 w. ago Woman who's been on death row for 27 years has conviction quashed after new information

Bombshell new evidence has given Brittany Holberg, 52, a reprieve - a case which a judge in Texas, US, says serves as a reminder capital punishment is still a "work in progress"

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3 w. ago Harvey Weinstein is back in court on rape charges. Here’s what you need to know

Harvey Weinstein is due in court Wednesday ahead of his #MeToo retrial, nearly a year after his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges was overturned.

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4 w. ago Wife saved from death row after Brit prof found she was 'sex shamed' in murder trial

Brenda Andrew was the only woman on death row in Oklahoma for the death of her estranged husband, Rob Andrew, who was shot to death in 2001 - almost 25 years later she can finally appeal

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4 w. ago After woman on death row, two more Indian nationals executed in UAE

As many as 26 Indians facing death sentence in UAE

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4 w. ago Hong Kong court overturns conviction of three former organisers of Tiananmen vigils

The ruling is a rare case of victory for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists

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4 w. ago Top Hong Kong court overturns convictions of 3 former organizers of Tiananmen vigils

Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have won their bid at the top court to overturn their conviction over their refusal to provide information to police, marking a rare victory for the city’s pro-democracy activists

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