(1) Errol Morris'groundbreaking investigation into a wrongful murder conviction helped free aninnocent man from prison and popularised crime reconstruction as a film device.

(2) Serial killer Robert Black's fourth murder conviction will prompt further investigations into other unsolved child disappearances, police have said.

(3) A judge this week is to rule on a defense request to reduce or overturn her second-degree murder conviction.

(4) The former president's brother, Raul, is in prison on a murder conviction and corruption charges.

(5) American Amanda Knox has scored a victory in her effort to overturn her murder conviction in Italy.

(6) In Seattle, about a dozen Knox supporters were overjoyed that she has been cleared of the murder conviction.

(7) Under either civilian law or the Uniform Code of Military Justice, a murder conviction could carry a penalty of death.

(8) This allowed her to be closely involved in drafting the lengthy appeal against his murder conviction which was filed earlier this year.