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Article • April 15, 2009
New York Civil Case Settled in 1977 by Simply Clarifying Rule by A U.S. district court in New York allowed the New York City Police Department (NYCPD) to settle a civil case in 1977 by stipulating and clarifying the NYCPD’s policy on bystanders remaining in the area of an arrest …
Article • April 15, 2009
$1 Million Award in Murder for Hire Plot by An Oregon jury has awarded a woman who sued her estranged husband for hiring someone to kill her $1,053,783. When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from her job as a nurse, she was attacked by Edward Dalton Haffey. Susan received blows to …
Article • April 15, 2009
$1.5 Million Award Against Newspaper for Defaming Indiana Police Officer by An Indiana jury has ordered The Tribune Star in Terre Haute, Indiana, to pay $1.5 million to a police officer who claimed the newspaper defamed him by stories it published. The jury’s verdict on July 28, 2004, awarded Clay …
$1.35 Million Settlement in Fatal California Police Shooting by California’s Alameda County has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit that claimed police were liable for killing a bystander to a confrontation with police for $1.35 million. Officers David Taylor and Tara Russell responded to a Dublin house on August 11, …
Eighth Circuit Upholds SORNA Against Constitutional Challenges by On July 31, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit rejected numerous constitutional challenges to the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). David Louis May was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender in violation …
Article • April 15, 2009
Fifth Circuit Rejects Petition for Writ of Mandamus Filed by Crime Victims by On May 7, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied a petition for a writ of mandamus filed by crime victims seeking to block the acceptance of a plea agreement. Family members of …
Involuntary Plea in Washington Requires Withdrawal or Strict Plea Enforcement by A state of Washington Court of Appeals has held that a defendant who enters an involuntary plea is entitled to choose his remedy of either specifically enforcing the plea agreement or withdrawing that plea. The ruling came in the …
Article • April 15, 2009
Judge Excludes Evidence of Criminal Conduct in Prisoner Civil Rights Action by U.S. District Judge John E. Steele has granted a motion in limine in a civil rights action over the adequacy of medical care provided to a prisoner whose baby died at birth. Michelle Goebert sought to exclude evidence …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Economic Crisis Prompts Prison Closures Nationwide, but Savings (and Reforms) are Elusive by David Reutter Economic Crisis Prompts Prison Closures Nationwide, but Savings (and Reforms) are Elusive by David M. Reutter With the current economic crisis adversely affecting state tax revenues, lawmakers across the nation are seeking ways to cut …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
BJS Report Finds 53% of Prisoners Are Parents by Mark Wilson BJS Report Finds 53% of Prisoners Are Parents by Mark Wilson About 809,800 (53%) of America’s 1,518,535 prisoners in 2007 were parents of minor children, according to a Special Report of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
BJS Report Reveals Parole Supervision Characteristics by Mark Wilson In 2006, nearly 68,000 state employees supervised 660,959 adult parolees – about 83 percent of 798,202 total parolees – according to a Special Report of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Parole officers had an average caseload …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Federal Prisoner’s §2241 Petition Dismissed for Non-Exhaustion; Prisoner Sought Sentence Reduction for Revealing Weapons by A federal court in Michigan denied a federal prisoner’s motion for relief from judgment summarily dismissing his habeas corpus petition. The court found that the prisoner failed to show that he exhausted his administrative remedies. …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Elected Judges More Punitive Just Before Elections by Gary Hunter Elected Judges More Punitive Just Before Elections by Gary Hunter Research compiled by Gregory A. Hubner of Yale University and Sanford C. Gordon of New York University revealed that trial judges hand out more prison and jail time to defendants …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Texas, New Jersey Prison Staff Prosecuted for Cell Phone Smuggling by On October 20, 2008, the entire Texas prison system was locked down and searched for cell phones and other contraband. The search resulted in the discovery of hundreds of cell phones, chargers, SIM cards, tobacco stashes and weapons. [See: …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Taliban Break 870 Prisoners Out of Afghan Prison by Taliban Break 870 Prisoners Out of Afghan Prison On June 13, 2008, the Taliban staged a prison break in Kandahar, Afghanistan, releasing 870 of Sarposa Prison’s 1,000 prisoners, 390 of whom were members of the Taliban. The escape started with a …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Imprisoned Connecticut Politician Gets Special Privileges by Matthew Clarke Imprisoned Connecticut Politician Gets Special Privileges by Matt Clarke In October 2008, the Hartford Courant reported that former Connecticut State Representative Jesse G. Stratton had received special privileges from Department of Corrections officials. Stratton, a 61-year-old widow with three grown children, …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
Cornell Defrauded of $13 Million in Prison Construction Scam by Cornell Defrauded of $13 Million in Prison Construction Scam On August 26, 2008, indictments were filed against three men accused of defrauding private prison operator Cornell Corrections of California, Inc. out of $13 million in a prison construction scam. A …
Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls by Matthew Clarke Suit Filed Over Minnesota Jail’s Secret Recording of Privileged Phone Calls by Matt Clarke On October 15, 2008, a Minneapolis law firm filed a civil rights suit in federal district court alleging that attorney-client phone calls …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
North Carolina DOC Pays $750,000 for Sex Between Guard and Female Prisoner by North Carolina DOC Pays $750,000 for Sex Between Guard and Female Prisoner A North Carolina Department of Corrections (NCDOC) female prisoner won a jury award of $750,000 for three acts of sexual intercourse perpetrated by a male …
$3.1 Million Awarded to FBI Informant's Family by On October 16, 2008, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the September 2006 findings of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in awarding approximately $3.1 million to the estate of an FBI informant, John McEntyre, who was murdered after the …
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