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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 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 …
Article • August 25, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Illinois Wrongful Conviction Suit Settled for $5 Million by Matthew Clarke In June 2012, the Village of Woodridge, Illinois, and several of its police officers settled a case brought by a man who bad been wrongfully convicted of rape due to the suppression and fabrication of evidence twenty years earlier. …
Article • August 25, 2016
USDC ED NY Grants Opposition to Quash Depositions in Murder/Rape by A magistrate judge at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted in November 2011 the Plaintiff’s motion opposing Defenses’ motion to quash deposition notices and notice of subpoena in a civil case resultant …
Article • August 22, 2016
Florida: DNA Mix-Up Calls Rapist's Conviction Into Question by When the FBI informed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) that it had a recent "hit" on the DNA of convicted rapist Andrew Lingard, the FDLE realized that something was amiss, because Lingard has been in prison for the last …
Texas Man Exonerated By DNA Test He Didn't Request by Matthew Clarke A Texas man, Michael Phillips, 57, recently became the first person to be cleared of a crime by DNA testing he did not request. Phillips was accused of raping a white teenage girl at a Dallas motel in …
Article • August 10, 2016
U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. Creates Unit to Investigate Flawed Convictions by Derek Gilna The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia has set up the first federal unit nationwide unit to internally identify, investigate, and possible wrongful convictions, U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen Jr. said.  “This new unit will …
Florida Allows Compensation of Wrongfully Convicted Man 25 Years after Release by David Reutter The Florida Legislature passed a bill in the closing minutes of its 2014 session that allows a man who served 21 years on a wrongful conviction to seek up to $2 million in compensation. James Richardson …
Article • August 9, 2016
Urban Institute Published Report on Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction by Paresh Patel For decades, law enforcement investigations used forensic evidence (i.e. fingerprints, DNA, and ballistics) to include or eliminate suspects. Scientific advances and improvement in forensic analysis have helped to exonerate those convicted of serious crimes. In many …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Post-conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction, Urban Institute Justice Policy Center, 2012 F R E S E A R C H Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction R E P O R T John Roman, Ph.D. (202) 261-5774 JRoman@urban.org June 2012 Kelly Walsh, Ph.D. (202) 261-5434 KWalsh@urban.org Pamela Lachman (202) …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions Research Details, 2010 Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions: Research Details Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………… 1 Chapter 1: Eyewitness Identification Procedures……………………………………... 6 Panel Recommendations……………………………………………………………… 6 Panel Report…………………………………………………………………………. 10 Concurring Report…………………………………………………………………... 38 Chapter 2: Recording Custodial Interrogations……………………………………... 46 Panel Recommendations……………………………………………………………. 46 Panel Report…………………………………………………………………………. …
Article • August 8, 2016
Massachusetts Man's Estate Paid Millions for Wrongful Conviction by The town of Ayer, Massachusetts, and five insurance companies have agreed to pay the estate of a man who spent 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit a total of $3.4 million. A sixth insurance company, Western …
Man Nearly Executed, Awarded $14M after Exoneration by A former death row inmate who came within weeks of being executed was awarded $14 million by a federal jury in New Orleans after being cleared of his murder conviction. John Thompson, 40, spent 18 years in prison after being convicted of …
Federal Jury Awards $9 Million to Illinois Man Cleared of Rape He Was Convicted of as Teenager by Alejandro Dominguez, who spent four years in prison for a rape he did not commit, was awarded $9 million by a federal jury after DNA evidence cleared him of the charges. Dominguez, …
DNA Keeps Overturning Convictions, But Spike in Exonerations Owed to Other Factors by Joe Watson Nicole Harris, Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown have lived through their own nightmares of injustice. All three were wrongfully convicted of the heinous murders of children. Combined, they spent nearly 70 years in prison …
HRDC Represents Former Illinois Prisoner in Wrongful Conviction Suit by Derek Gilna Over the years, Prison Legal News and its parent non-profit organization, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), have filed dozens of censorship lawsuits against state prison systems and county jails, as well as numerous public records suits. [See: …
Article • July 29, 2016
Michigan Man Convicted on Faulty Bite Evidence Receives $1.5 Million by A $1.5 million settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought by a Michigan man who spent 13 years in prison for a rape charge based on faulty bite mark evidence. Two weeks before the case was set to proceed …
Publication • July 29, 2016
Predicting Erroneous Convictions - A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice, Gould et al, 2013 The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Predicting Erroneous Convictions: A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice Author(s): …
Brief • July 26, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Webb v. State of Oklahoma, OK, Notice of Tort Claim, Wrongful Conviction, 2016 MULINIX~ EDWARDS ROSELL GOERKE 210 Park Avenue, Suite 3030 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102 Telephone (405) 232-3800 Telecopier ( 405) 232-8999 () 905 24th Avenue, NW, Suite A Norman, Oklahoma 73069 PLLC Attorneys & Counselors at Law www.lawokc.com …
Medical Statistical Model Used to Estimate Wrongful Conviction Rate in Death Penalty Cases by Matthew Clarke An interesting collaboration between medical and law professionals, under the leadership of University of Michigan Law School professor Samuel R. Gross, led to the application of medical statistical analysis to exonerations of death-sentenced prisoners, …
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