1.   And studies have suggested that nearly half of federal petitions filed in death penalty cases result in either a reversal of the sentence or an overturned conviction.

2.   Both Ross or Brackman said they did not expect the overturned conviction to reignite tension in Crown Heights.

3.   In the court system, for example, records show that numerous appeals have been filed because of allegations of interpreter error, although overturned convictions are rare.

4.   The defense teams are packed with capital punishment trial veterans who know how to drag out the process and turn flawed statutes into overturned convictions, he said.