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Bashimam v. City of Tallahassee, FL, Exhibit A, Designation of F.R.Civ.P.30 (b)(6), 2010 EXHIBIT A: Designations of Subject Matter for F.R.Civ.P. 30(b)(6) Representatives Bashimam v. City of Tallahassee, et al. Representative(s) of the City of Tallahassee shall be prepared to testify regarding: Supervision: Command structure; chain of command; reporting between …
Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010
17,698 DNA Profiles Missing from Wisconsin Database by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2009, Wisconsin officials discovered that the profiles of 17,698 convicted felons were missing from the state’s DNA database. An investigation into Milwaukee serial killer suspect Walter E. Ellis revealed that his DNA was not in …
Federal Jury Awards $5 Million for Wrongful Conviction Involving Houston Crime Lab by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Texas federal jury awarded $5 million to a former prisoner who was wrongly convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault based in part on falsified evidence generated by the Houston Police Department’s …
Supreme Court: No Due Process Right to Post-Conviction DNA Testing by On March 2, 2009, the United States Supreme Court ruled that there is no federal substantive due process right to post-conviction DNA testing. William G. Osborne, an Alaska state prisoner, was convicted of a 1993 kidnapping, assault and sexual …
$16.5 Million-Plus Settlement in Oklahoma City False Conviction Case by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 8, 2009, a federal district judge in Oklahoma City signed a judgment following the settlement of a suit awarding a man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not …
Brief • June 26, 2009
Filed under: Crime Labs
Rodriguez v. City of Houston, TX, Final Judgment, Innacurate Crime Lab Violation, 2009 Case 4:06-cv-02650 Document 324 Filed in TXSD on 06/26/2009 Page 1 of 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVIS][ON GEORGE RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff, versus CITY 01' HOUSTON, Defendant. § § …
Lab Technician Denied Qualified Immunity In Former Prisoner’s Lawsuit by In 1984, Dennis Patrick Brown was convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison. With the assistance of The Innocence Project, the DNA tests were repeated in 2003 and revealed Brown was innocent. Brown was released and the City …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
Washington State Crime Lab Chief Resigns by Gary Hunter Washington crime lab chief Barry Logan resigned effective March 14, 2008, after judges in three counties roundly criticized the work performed in state laboratories under his supervision. The fallout mainly stemmed from hundreds of DUI cases that were improperly handled by …
Exonerated Montana Prisoner Sues State, Receives $3.5 Million by In January 2008, the state of Montana settled a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner who had been wrongfully convicted of raping a child, paying him $3.5 million. The settlement was the largest amount the state had ever paid for a …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
Record $3.2 Million Settlement for Wrongfully Imprisoned Massachusetts Man by Michael Rigby The City of Boston, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $3.2 million to a man who spent 10 ½ years in prison for a rape he did not commit. The March 2006 settlement is believed to be the largest …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
Wrongfully Convicted Texas Prisoner Finally Receives $118,000 in Compensation by Matthew T. Clarke In 1988, a 17-year-old Josiah Sutton was convicted in a Texas court of a rape he did not commit and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Sutton spent close to five years in prison before new DNA …
Washington State Forensic Scientist Helps Convict the Innocent, FBI Assists by by Matthew T. Clarke Washington State Patrol crime lab forensic scientist Charles Vaughan had no problem finding new employment after he helped convict two innocent Oregon State men of murder when he worked as a state forensic scientist in …
Wrongfully Convicted Pennsylvania Prisoner Settles for $2.3 Million; Forensics Expert Fired by A wrongfully convicted ex-prisoner who spent 15-years in a Pennsylvania prison got modest compensation from the government that imprisoned him by winning a $2.3 million settlement in the lawsuits he filed. In Washington state, a forensic scientist was …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Houston Crime Lab Closed, Prisoner Freed by Michael Rigby On March 6, 2003, the Houston Police Department (HPD) Chief C. O. Bradford announced that the department's DNA crime lab had been shut down and that internal affairs had launched an investigation into possible criminal and other misconduct. The announcement came …
Tulia Travesty Settled for $6 Million by Hans Sherrer 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 …
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Houston Crime Lab Report 2006 Fifth Report of the Independent Investigator for the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory and Property Room Michael R. Bromwich Independent Investigator Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, D.C. 20004 202.639.7000 http://www.hpdlabinvestigation.org May 11, 2006 HPD Crime Lab …
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Fbi Crime Lab Doj Ig Report 1997 USDOJ/OIG Special Report The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices and Alleged Misconduct in Explosives-Related and Other Cases (April 1997) Table of Contents After viewing any of the following links, use your browser's GO/BACK function to return to this page. PART ONE: …
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Doj Report on Increased Efficiency in Crime Laboratories Jan 2008 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice IN SHORT ➡ T OWARD C RIMINAL J USTICE S OLUTIONS www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij Increasing Efficiency in Crime Laboratories THE ISSUE Television has given forensic science great public visibility, but …
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