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Brief • October 5, 2016
Lipford v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement, Illegal Police Search, 2016 lJNITED STATES DISTHICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF lLLINOIS EASTERN DlVISION 'vlichacl Lipford. ) ) Plaintiff. ) 15 c 6988 ) \'S. ) ) City ofChieago. Ci.W. Dniky (ill 7280), 1..F. Goff(#l 1111). B.T. Veleta (1!16457). R.E. Yates (f.117939), R.ll. …
Chicago Police Detective Accused of Brutality Used Similar Techniques at Guantanamo by Derek Gilna In an ironic twist of fate, a former Chicago police detective accused of acts of brutality against suspects in police custody has been cited for using similar tactics at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, …
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Federal Civil Procedure Rule 15 is Substantive, Not Chronological in Application by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on November 23, 2015 that Fed.R.Civ.P. 15 operates substantively, not chronologically, allowing a plaintiff to amend in whatever order he or she deems fit, provided there is compliance with the requirements …
Wisconsin: Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Receives $6.5 Million by Chaunte D. Ott received a $6.5 million settlement from the City of Milwaukee for spending over 12 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction, after being cleared by DNA evidence that connected the crime to a serial killer. Ott, now …
Illinois: Exonerated Prisoner Calls $80,000 Award a Travesty, Retrial Ordered by Gary Hunter Nathson E. Fields spent 18 years in prison due to a conveniently “lost” file that would have cleared him. Fields was a member of the El Rukn street gang when he was convicted of a double homicide …
Benitez v. City of Chicago, IL, Complaint, False Arrest, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-09244 Document #: 1 Filed: 09/26/16 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ALMA BENITEZ, Plaintiff, vs. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Programmed to Kill: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Dogs by John W. Whitehead By John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute - Commentary “In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of …
Brief • September 20, 2016
Smith v. Baltimore City Police Department, MD, Opinion, Unlawful Arrest, 2016 PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 15-1604 MAKIA SMITH, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT; ANTHONY W. BATTS, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Baltimore City Police Department; OFFICER NATHAN …
Brief • September 14, 2016
Sledge v. Little, NC, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHERN DIVISION File No. 7:15-cv-180-D JOSEPH SLEDGE, JR., Plaintiff, vs. PHILLIP LITTLE, in his individual and official capacities; EARL STORMS, in his official capacity; STEPHEN BUNN, in his …
Article • September 9, 2016
Tribal Police Accused of Brutality, Corruption on S. Dakota Reservation by The Trail of Tears goes on. It still winds its way through dilapidated villages on reservations across the United States, starved of resources and pockmarked by dysfunction. Nearly two centuries since indigenous Americans were uprooted and driven west, the …
Article • September 7, 2016
New York Appeals Court Reduces $4M Jury Verdict in Police Excessive Force Case to $1.8M by Lonnie Burton On April 12, 2016, the First Judicial Department of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court awarded $1.8 million to a man for false arrest and malicious prosecution. A jury …
Lakewood (WA) Police Department Found in Violation of State Public Records Act by Lonnie Burton On May 25, 2016, Division Two of the Washington State Court of Appeals found that the city of Lakewood, Washington, and the Lakewood Police Department (LPD) improperly withheld documents in a Public Records Act (PRA) …
Brief • September 7, 2016
Strong v. Tessmann, IL, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-04885 Document #: 112 Filed: 09/07/16 Page 1 of 38 PageID #:274 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JASON STRONG, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) LUCIAN TESSMANN, WILLIAM VALKO, …
Article • September 6, 2016
Supreme Court: No Warrantless Blood Tests for DUI Stops by The Supreme Court has held that warrantless breath tests may be conducted incident to arrests for drunk driving, but warrantless blood tests may not. The Court stated: Blood tests are a different matter. They “require piercing the skin” and extract …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Wrongfully-convicted Former Prisoner Receives $13.2 Million in FBI Hair Analysis Case by Derek Gilna A 55-year-old man who was convicted based upon the now-discredited “science” of forensics hair analysis has been awarded $13.2 million by District of Columbia Superior Court Judge John M. Mott. This was just the latest in …
Louisiana Sheriff Faces Recall Petition, Federal Indictments by Organizers hope that a petition circulating throughout Louisiana’s Iberia Parish will result in the recall of Sheriff Louis Ackal. According to Donald Broussard, the activist who started the petition, a “dark cloud is being cast over Iberia Parish” due to corruption attributed …
Publication • September 1, 2016
Addressing Sexual Offenses and Misconduct by Law Enforcement, IACP, 2011 Addressing Sexual Offenses and Misconduct by Law Enforcement: Executive Guide Table of Contents Professor Roger Goldman Saint Louis University School of Law Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
Article • August 26, 2016
GAO Study: Federal Grants Bypass Indigent Defense In Favor of Law Enforcement by A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirms what most criminal defendants too poor to pay for an attorney already assumed: While hundreds of millions in federal tax dollars support prosecutors and law enforcement every year. …
Article • August 25, 2016
Massachusetts Crime Lab Chemist Arrested for Falsifying Results by Matthew Clarke Annie Dookhan, 34, was arrested on September 28, 2012, and charged with two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of falsifying her academic record during her nine-year career as a state crime lab chemist. Each obstruction charge …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct
New Mexico Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Selling Stolen County Property on eBay by On July 20, 2011, the former Sheriff of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, Greg Solano, 47, pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud for selling county property on eBay and keeping the money. The property sold included …
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