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Anatomy of False Confessions, Redux by Earlier this year PLN reported on the phenomenon of suspects who falsely confess to crimes they did not commit. [See: PLN, April 2011, p.18]. As false confessions occur in wrongful conviction cases with disturbing regularity, this article revisits and expounds on this important topic …
Article • September 15, 2011
Washington Court's Imposition of Unauthorized Supervision Overturned by Randy Town, a Washington state prisoner, pled guilty to 2 counts of statutory rape based on incidents occurring between 1983 and 1987. He was sentenced to 300 months in prison and 1 year of community placement supervision on each count at his …
Maine Supreme Judicial Court Reinstates Challenge to Maine SORNA by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has reversed the dismissal of a challenge to the Maine Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), 34-A M.R.S. §§ 11201-11256. John Doe is the pseudonym of a person convicted …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Hopes Dashed for Criminal Defendants Facing Deportation in Virginia by Derek Gilna In an interesting development resulting from the case of Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S.Ct. 1473 (2010) [PLN, Aug. 2010, p.11], a General District Court in Loudoun County, Virginia reopened four cases involving defendants who said they would not …
Article • May 15, 2011
PRP Granted: Alford Plea to be Withdrawn by In May 1985, Washington State resident, Clyde R. Spencer, entered an Alford plea in answer to numerous charges of statutory rape and complicity to commit statutory rape. The only evidence against him was the testimony of his two biological children and his …
Washington State Supreme Court Allows Withdrawal of Juvenile's Guilty Plea to Sex Offense by On January 28, 2010, the Supreme Court of Washington State issued an opinion allowing a juvenile to withdraw a guilty plea to a sex offense due to ineffective assistance of appointed counsel and misunderstanding the charge. …
Article • May 15, 2011
Filed under: Guilty Pleas, Sentencing
Withdrawal of Guilty Plea Required for Washington Prisoner by David Reutter By David M. Ruetter The State of Washington Court of Appeals has held that a defendant is entitled to withdraw a guilty plea where he was not informed that he could not earn early release credits during the mandatory …
Article • April 15, 2011
New York Supreme Court Denies Challenge to the Voluntariness of Plea by The Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, denied a prisoner’s challenge of the voluntariness of his plea agreement despite waiving his right to appeal. Claudio Nunez was charged in Sullivan County with aggravated harassment of a guard …
Article • April 15, 2011
Washington Court of Appeals Upholds Civil Commitment’s Conviction for Assault by The Division II Court of Appeals for the State of Washington has affirmed the assault conviction of a civilly committed man. Bob Pugh assaulted a King County Sheriff’s Department officer while he was being escorted from the McNeil Island …
New Research: Why Innocent People Confess to Crimes They Did Not Commit by Derek Gilna A September 2010 article in the New York Times highlighted an interesting phenomenon that has become more evident in an era where DNA evidence is available to help conclusively prove guilt or innocence – the …
Summary Judgment of Tennessee Prisoner's Appeal of Disciplinary Ruling Reversed by Summary Judgment of Tennessee Prisoner's Appeal of Disciplinary Ruling Reversed In this case involving a prison disciplinary proceeding, the Tennessee Court of Appeals held that material factual disputes surrounding a prisoner's waiver of his right to 24-hour notice and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Highest Texas Court Rules Actual Innocence Trumps Guilty Plea by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) has held that newly discovered, unquestionable evidence of a prisoner's actual innocence may be raised on state habeas corpus even though the prisoner pleaded guilty. Wesley Ronald Tuley, a Texas state prisoner, filed …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington Prisoner's Motion to Withdraw Guilty Plea Denied by On February 14, 2003, the Washington Court of Appeals, Division II, upheld a trial court's denial of a state prisoner's motion to withdraw a guilty plea. Steven Henderson and another prisoner were charged with escaping from the Clallam Bay Corrections Center …
BOP Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Good Time by BOP Prisoners have Liberty Interest in Good Time The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that federal prisoners have a due process liberty interest in receiving good time credits and not being subjected to disciplinary segregation without due process …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Heck Doesn't Apply After Release from Prison by A federal district court in Louisiana held that prisoners released from prison need not have a court ruling in their favor before challenging prison disciplinary hearings via 42 U. S. C. § 1983. Jimmy White, a Louisiana state prisoner, was infracted for …
$15,001 Excessive Force Verdict Affirmed by The court of appeals for the First circuit affirmed a jury verdict awarding $15,001 in damages to a prisoner beaten by prison guards. The court affirmed several evidentiary rulings by the district court excluding evidence of a disciplinary hearing guilty plea by the plaintiff …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Disciplinary Guilty Plea No Waiver to Suit by Joe Reeves is a Texas state prisoner. He was infracted for placing his food tray outside his cell in the segregation unit. A prison rule required that food trays remain inside prisoner's cells until collected by guards. Reeves had received no notice …
Outgoing Mail May Contain Slander by Aprisoner at the Iowa Men's Reformatory received a major disciplinary infraction for "verbal abuse" as a result of comments included in a letter he had written to his brother. The prisoner, Rick Bressman, wrote: "yeah, their (sic) real assholes, my counselor is a dick …
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