retrial
Noun
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A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.
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Abdi had spent 16 years in jail before his murder conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal on 13 February, 2019, and a retrial was ordered, after the court heard he had been correctly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2013.
Amnesty International understands that Mohammad Hassanfather wrote to the Iranian authorities in August 2019 requesting a retrial.
Because his conviction was overturned, and his retrial was pending at the time of his death, he died technically unconvicted.
Greenwood’s club captain Harry Maguire is absent from England duty after he was arrested while on holiday in Greece and convicted of aggravated assault, before securing a retrial after the verdict was quashed.
However, the conviction would be overturned, and she would be acquitted by reason of insanity in a retrial.
He was also responsible for the retrial of Joan of Arc that saw her vindicated.