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CCRC

British  

abbreviation

  1. Criminal Cases Review Commission: a British government body established in 1997 to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice

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After his release, advances in scientific techniques allowed Mr Malkinson's legal team to provide new DNA analysis casting doubt on the conviction to CCRC, which then commissioned its own testing.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2023

The CCRC, the independent body that reviews potential miscarriages of justice, is the last line of appeal open to anybody who thinks they have been wrongfully convicted.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2023

“The reckoning is here,” said Davis Jenkins, senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center, or CCRC, at Teachers College, Columbia University.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023

Those numbers would be even more grim if they didn’t include high school students taking dual-enrollment courses, whom the colleges count in their enrollment but on whom they’re losing money, according to the CCRC.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023

Mr Hayes said the decision by the CCRC, the body set up to review miscarriages of justice, was "perverse".

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2021