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Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Appointment of Counsel
Fifth Circuit Holds Court May Compel Attorney to Represent Indigent Prisoner by Matthew Clarke In a November 13, 2015 ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held a district court may compel a lawyer to represent an indigent prisoner challenging prison conditions. Mario Naranjo was incarcerated at the Reeves County …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Attorneys with Disciplinary Records Part of Flaw in Pennsylvania’s Death Penalty System by David Reutter In February 2015, just a month into his term as Pennsylvania’s Governor, Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on capital punishment in the state, calling it “error prone, expensive and anything but infallible.” [See: PLN, Feb. …
Texas District Attorney and Prosecutor Accused, Cleared of Misconduct by Matthew Clarke In June 2015, the State Bar of Texas initiated disciplinary actions against Fort Bend County District Attorney John Francis Healey, Jr. and Assistant District Attorney Mark Harold Hanna. The disciplinary petitions filed by the State Bar Commission for …
Brief • March 9, 2017
Church v. State of Missouri, MO, Class Action Petition, Ineffective Counsel, 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COLE COUNTY STATE OF MISSOURI SHONDEL CHURCH; RANDALL LEE DALTON; DORIAN SAMUELS; VIOLA BOWMAN; and BRIAN RICHMAN, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Case No. ____________________ Division: _____________________ Plaintiffs, v. …
Wheatt et al v. City of East Cleveland, et al., OH, Complaint, Police Misconduct, 2017 Case: 1:17-cv-00377-JG Doc #: 1 Filed: 02/23/17 1 of 45. PageID #: 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO, EASTERN DIVISION DERRICK WHEATT and LAURESE ) GLOVER, ) ) …
Study: 95 Percent of Elected Prosecutors are White by Joe Watson A recent study illustrates just how racially skewed the U.S. criminal justice system is with respect to its most powerful participants: prosecutors. Of 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors holding office in 2014, 95 percent were white and 79% …
Hood v. Global Tel Link, MS, Complaint, Bribery and Conspiracy, 2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF RANKIN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI fE ~ l lE r FEB -8 2017 JIM HOOD, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF MI~SISSIPPI, ex rel. THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Plaintiff, rnn' t1J' v. CIVIL ACTION NO.: ---'/_r_-_;;z_--"-']_ …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Since we started publishing PLN in 1990, the injustices of the parole system, or that of never-ending punishment and sentences without end, has been an enduring theme. In the 1970s it was prisoners’ rights activists and advocates who called for an end to parole …
Brief • February 7, 2017
Filed under: Attorney Client
Allen v. Edwards, LA, Burochowitz Repor, 2017 AFFIDAVIT OF ROBERT C. BORUCHOWITZ Table of Contents I. Assignment ..........................................................................................................................1 II. Background and Qualifications............................................................................................2 III. Summary of Opinions ..........................................................................................................6 IV. Constitutional Mandates Require That Effective Representation Be Provided to Indigent Defendants at All Important Stages of a Criminal Proceeding .............................8 V. Pervasive …
Brief • January 28, 2017
Filed under: Attorneys, Immigration
Aziz v. Trump, VA, TRO, Detainees at Airport, 2017 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Alexandria Division Case No. 1:17-cv-116 Tareq Aqel Mohammed Aziz and Ammar Aqel Mohammed Aziz, by their next friend, Aqel Muhammad Aziz, and John Does 1-60, Date: January 28, 2017 Petitioners, v. …
Publication • January 13, 2017
HRDC NPAP CLE Seminar on Representing Victims of Law Enforcement Misconduct on the Street and in the Cell Block, March 2017 Upcoming CLE Seminar: Representing Victims of Law Enforcement Misconduct on the Street and in the Cell Block The South Florida-based Human Rights Defense Center in collaboration with the National …
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Judge Rips DOJ Lawyers for “Series of Misrepresentations,” Orders Ethics Training by Derek Gilna In one of the most recent examples of gross misconduct on the part of U.S. Department of Justice attorneys, noteworthy for the fact that it was actually punished, a Texas federal judge blasted DOJ lawyers who …
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Filed under: Prosecutors, Family, Marriage
New York DA Supervisor Engages in Kinky Fetishes, Wife Claims by Derek Gilna The estranged wife of Jeffrey Stein, the top administrative supervisor in the prosecutor’s office for Nassau County, New York, filed a civil divorce petition claiming her husband’s kinky sexual preferences gave her post traumatic stress disorder. According …
$325,002 Award to Michigan Prisoner Denied Medical Care for Joint Pain by A federal jury has awarded $325,002 to a prisoner upon finding Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) staff were deliberately indifferent to his chronic joint pain. State prisoner Temujin Kensu, 52, suffered for over two decades with medical issues …
Too Little, Too Late: Prosecutor Remorseful for Sending Innocent Man to Death Row by David Reutter The district attorney who prosecuted Glenn Ford, a Louisiana man exonerated after spending 30 years on death row, called capital punishment “an abomination that continues to scar the fibers of this society.” That statement …
Kansas Supreme Court Modifies “Exoneration Rule” by Matthew Clarke In an opinion handed down on December 31, 2015, the Supreme Court of Kansas modified the requirement that a criminal defendant be exonerated prior to suing the attorney who represented him (the “exoneration rule”). Under the modification, reversal of a conviction …
Young v. Chicago, IL, Order, Produce IPRA Documents,2017 Case: 1:13-cv-05651 Document #: 179 Filed: 01/03/17 Page 1 of 24 PageID #:1111 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION LaSHAWNDA YOUNG, Individually, and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Divonte Young, ) ) ) ) …
Publication • December 30, 2016
Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 1062 (62915), New York State Bar Association, 2015 ETHICS OPINION 1062 New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 1062 (6/29/15) Topic: Financing a law practice; crowdfunding websites. Digest: A law firm may engage in certain types of crowdfunding but not others. Any …
Brief • December 22, 2016
John v. Demaio, NY, Memo and Order, Affirming 'Fee on Fee' Award, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-06094-NGG-CLP Document 42 Filed 12/22/16 Page 1 of 7 PageID #: 260 Vlf UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -X ADRIAN JOHN,SHANTEE WILLIAMS,and LUIS GOMEZ, MEMORANDUM & ORDER 15-CV-6094(NGG)(CLP) Plaintiffs, -against- Police Officer …
Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Pennsylvania: DA Apologizes for Undisclosed Gifts by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams belatedly reported $160,050 in gifts from political and legal connections, raising conflict of interest concerns and prompting an August 19, 2016 apology from the prosecutor to his staff. In an email, Williams apologized for any “distractions” created by …
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