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Tulia Travesty Settled for $6 Million
Loaded on March 15, 2003
by Hans Sherrer
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2004, page 24
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution,
Crime Labs,
Damages,
Class Notice,
Sentencing,
Wrongful Conviction,
Pardons/Clemency,
False Arrest.
Location:
Texas.
Tulia Travesty Settled For $6 Million
by Hans Sherrer
On August 22, 2003, Texas Governor Rick Perry pardoned 35 people whose convictions stemmed from a Swisher County drug investigation that began in 1998.
The prosecution of those people began with the arrest of 43 people in the Tulia, Texas area ...
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More from this issue:
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- U.S. Torture: A Sordid History Of Official And Systematic Abuse, by G. Flint Taylor
- Florida's Rush to Disenfranchise Felons Before the 2004 Election, by David Reutter
- Restoration of Voting Rights in Washington, by Julya Hampton
- Georgia DOC to Provide Court Access With Computers, Legal Software
- Seventh Circuit Allows Sanctions for Frivolous Habeas Corpus Petitions
- Denial of Nation of Islam Literature Unconstitutional, by David Reutter
- California Prisons Contract-Medical-Care Audit Reveals Millions In Waste, by Marvin Mentor
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Report Downplays Wrongful Convictions in U.S., by Hans Sherrer
- Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years, by John E Dannenberg
- PLRA Applies to Juveniles; Claim Administratively Exhausted
- Tulia Travesty Settled for $6 Million, by Hans Sherrer
- Mismanaged, Money-Losing Folsom City Prison Closed, by John E Dannenberg
- $300,000 Awarded for Delayed Treatment of New York Prisoner's Hearing Loss
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- Democratic Organization Gives Some Felons Second Chance
- Stun Belt Violates Due Process; Habeas Granted, by John E Dannenberg
- VP's Drug Dealer Retaliation Claim Ordered to Trial
- Report Blasts South Carolina Plan to Privatize Prison Health Care, by Michael Rigby
- Guards Let California Prisoner Slowly Starve to Death
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- The Citebook, by Michael Rigby
- Florida DOC Ordered to Assist Felons Restore Their Voting Rights, by David Reutter
- New York Court Awards Prisoner $180,000 in Slip and Fall
- California Internet Injunction Upheld
- Preliminary Injunction Granted to Religious Objector of Tuberculosis Skin Test, by David Reutter
- New Mexico Lawyers Entitled to Jail Visiting, Phone and Records Access
- Prisons Almanac 2004 Prisons Foundation, Washington, DC, by John E Dannenberg
- Texas Syndicate Gang Members Busted - Again, by C.C. Simmons
- U.S. Supreme Court: Guantanamo Detainees and "Enemy Combatants" Have Access to Habeas Corpus, by John E Dannenberg
- California Awards Wrongly Incarcerated Man $428,000
- News in Brief
- Jury Awards $20,000 to Nurse Stuck by Needle from HIV Positive Prisoner
More from Hans Sherrer:
- Tulia Undercover Deputy Tom Coleman Convicted of Perjury, Nov. 15, 2005
- The Complicity of Judges in Wrongful Convictions, Aug. 15, 2004
- Report Downplays Wrongful Convictions in U.S., March 15, 2003
- Tulia Travesty Settled for $6 Million, March 15, 2003
- A Sentence of Their Own, Nov. 15, 2002
- Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed., Aug. 15, 2002
- Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State, Sept. 15, 2001
- Washington Radiation Suit Settled for $2.4 Million, Nov. 15, 2000
- Discovering America As It Is, April 15, 2000
- Prison-Industrial Complex Conferences Are Spreading the Word, Aug. 15, 1999
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