CCRC

abbreviation for

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

Example Sentences

The report reveals the CCRC’s investigators and leaders failed to follow up evidence of innocence right up to 2022.

From BBC

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

Stone's barrister Mark McDonald said the CCRC's announcement on Thursday was "utterly astonishing", as he claimed Bellfield had "made numerous statements confessing" to the Russell murders.

From BBC

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

“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