postconviction
English edit
Etymology edit
post- + conviction.
Adjective edit
postconviction (not comparable)
- Occurring after a judicial conviction.
- 2008 February 21, Linda Greenhouse, “Justices Rule on Retroactivity of Decisions”, in New York Times[1]:
- The question for the court in this case was whether state courts, in considering postconviction appeals from criminal defendants, are bound by the same rule of nonretroactivity.