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Kentucky Prisoners Entitled to Review of Audio Recordings at Disciplinary Hearing by A Kentucky Court of Appeals held on February 26, 2016 that prisoners have a due process right to request the review of audio recordings at a prison disciplinary hearing. Proceeding pro se, Kentucky state prisoner Sammy F. Mobley, …
Corizon, CCA Settle Lawsuit Over Solitary Confinement of Elderly Woman by Matthew Clarke Corizon Health and for-profit prison firm Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) have settled a lawsuit over the solitary confinement of a then-70-year-old prisoner following an alleged false positive drug test caused by Zantac, a heartburn medication. Carol …
Phoenix Fire Investigators and Insurance Company Implicated in Wrongful Prosecutions by Joe Watson Following a decision by Arizona prosecutors not to criminally charge a pair of Phoenix Fire Department (PFD) investigators who allegedly lied under oath and trained a dog to implicate innocent people, victims have pursued justice through civil …
Widespread Failures at Crime Labs Continue to Plague Criminal Justice System by Derek Gilna Crime labs nationwide continue to face seemingly intractable problems – particularly in terms of unreliable forensic evidence testing and being influenced by law enforcement and prosecutorial bias. Despite efforts at reform, and efforts to implement technological …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Pennsylvania: Former Cop Indefinitely Jailed for Failure to Supply Passwords by In March 2015, former Philadelphia police sergeant Francis Rawls, 37, was identified as a suspect in a child porno­graphy ring. As part of the investigation, Delaware County authorities confiscated several electronic devices from Rawls’ home and requested that he …
Warrantless Jail Cell Manuscript Seizure Vacates Oregon Rape Convictions by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed an Oregon man's rape convictions, finding that prosecutors improperly seized a handwritten manuscript from his jail cell without a warrant. Kenneth Everett Moore was arrested on six counts of rape when his …
Moreira v. City of New York, NY, Interrogatories, 2016
Article • September 8, 2016
"Mere Possession" of a prison shank found sufficient for finding of "crime of violence' by Derek Gilna Jermaine Mobley was sentence to 37 months in the Eastern District of North Carolina in 2010 for possession of a prohibited object in prison as de­fined by 18 U.S.C. Section 1791(a)(2), after being …
Michigan: Suit Against Prison Doctor for Sexual Abuse May Proceed by Lonnie Burton On June 22, 2016, United States District Court Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan issued an order adopting a magistrate's recommendation to deny a motion to dismiss filed by a prison doctor who …
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
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 11, 2016
New York Police IA Records in Camera Inspection Improperly Denied by Mark Wilson The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division reversed a lower court's denial of in camera inspection of police internal affairs records in a wrongful death action. Christine Cea and others brought a state court wrongful death action …
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 …
Article • August 9, 2016
California Cop Destroys Jail Suicide Evidence, Gets Probation by Something snapped in Dean Gochenour's fragile mind before he hanged himself in a jail cell in Fullerton, California, nearly two years ago. Just hours later, the man who arrested him that night snapped, too, smashing the device that recorded one of …
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 …
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 …
Dallas Conviction Integrity Unit Gains National Notoriety by Matthew Clarke The word “first” was applied to Craig M. Watkins multiple times after his election to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in 2006. He was the county’s first black D.A., the first D.A. who had been a public defender before …
Connecticut Prisoner Wins Motion for Sanctions over Destruction of Evidence; Case Settles for $40,000 by Derek Gilna Connecticut state prisoner Tye Thomas won an important pretrial motion that found employees of the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) were “grossly negligent” in failing to preserve key video surveillance footage of assaults …
Brief • June 30, 2016
Filed under: Evidence, Police
Golding v. City of New York, NY, Hearing Transcript, Discovery Document Production, 2016 1 G6udgolc 1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ------------------------------x 3 JUNIOR GOLDING, 4 Plaintiff, 5 6 v. 15 Civ. 3498(ALC)(SN) THE CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., 7 8 New York, N.Y. …
Publication • 2016
Filed under: Evidence, Expert Witnesses
EOPPCAST - Forensic Science in Criminal Courts, 2016 REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods Executive Office of the President President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology September 2016 REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity …
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