This follow-up programme produced evidence suggesting that the review was conducted improperly plus further fresh evidence that Spencer could not have committed the crime.

Last month the pro-Johnson group went to Federal District Court in Manhattan seeking to delay the referendum on the ground that it was being conducted improperly.

The SEC determined that the purchase was conducted improperly.

Seven of the mutineers were sentenced to death at a trial that was later alleged to have been improperly conducted.

The panel found that the trial was improperly conducted without the approval of an independent ethics committee, and that Wakefield had multiple undeclared conflicts of interest.

The report said tests on urine samples were conducted improperly and fell so short of scientific standards that it was "completely irresponsible" to suggest they "constitute evidence of anything."

Its expanded list of charges, filed in June, includes one that she "improperly conducted and utilized psychotherapy sessions."

Solomon's supporters subsequently alleged that the nomination meeting was conducted improperly, and Solomon himself entered the contest as an Independent Liberal-Progressive.

Henke concluded that the ICR's "research" was improperly conducted and "was unsuccessful in adequately separating the volcanic glass from the much older minerals."

In other developments, Judge Matsch denied a defense request for a hearing on its accusations that the grand jury investigation of the bombing was conducted improperly.