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Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Hidden Agenda Fuels Challenge to Pivotal Death Penalty Case by David Protess Anthony Porter, the exonerated death row prisoner whose jubilant release from prison in February 1999 was the catalyst for abolishing the death penalty in Illinois, is back in the news after living in relative obscurity for years. A …
Tankleff v. New York, NY, Settlement, Wrongful Conviction, 2014 STATE OF NEW YORK - COURT OF CLAIMS .. -- ------------------ --------- ------------------------------ ----X MARTIN TANKLEFF, STIPULATION OF SETTLEMENT AND DISCONTINUANCE Claimant, Claim No. 118655 Lopez-Summa, 1. againstTHE STATE OF NEW YORK, Defendant(s), ..---------------------------------------------------------------X WHEREAS, the parties hereto have agreed to …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
New Exonerations Registry Catalogs Over 2,400 Wrongful Convictions by According to the National Registry of Exonerations, more than 1,230 criminal defendants who were wrongfully convicted have been exonerated since 1989. Another 1,170 cases involving wrongful convictions were not included in the Registry’s database because they were “collective exonerations” in police …
Brief • October 10, 2013
Polk v. Nugent, FL, Appellant Brief, Wrongful Conviction for Child Rape, 2013 Docket No. 13-13384 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DAVID RANDALL POLK, Appellant, v. HON. JOE NUGENT, as Sheriff of Gulf County, FRANK McKEITHEN, RITA PIERCY and TOM GODWIN, individually, Appellees. Civil Appeal Northern District …
Collins v. City of Chicago, IL, Verdict, False Imprisonment and Malicious Prosecution, 2013
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics by Osagie K. Obasogie by Prof. Osagie K. Obasogie When the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside of San Jose, California, they found Mr. Kumra had been blindfolded, tied and gagged. The robbers took cash, rare coins and …
Article • August 15, 2013
Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Escape Conviction by In December 2012, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed an escape conviction because the prisoner’s request to represent himself was improperly denied. While serving a sentence for robbery at the Plummer Center in Wilmington, Delaware, prisoner Maurice Williams requested and received a medical pass …
An Innocent Man Speaks: PLN Interviews Jeff Deskovic by On April 9, 2013, Prison Legal News editor Paul Wright sat down with Jeffrey Deskovic as part of PLN's ongoing series of interviews concerning our nation's criminal justice system. Previously, PLN interviewed famous actor Danny Trejo [PLN, Aug. 2011, p.1] and …
8th Circuit Allows Reckless Investigation Suit to Proceed After DNA Evidence Leads to Pardons for Four Convicted Murderers by In October 2012, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that four individuals (two men and two women), who had pleaded guilty or no contest to a Gage County, Nebraska rape/murder …
8th Circuit: Qualified Immunity Denied to Nebraska Investigative Team Which Manufactured False Evidence to Secure Murder Conviction of Innocent Party by In October 2012, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to a team of investigators accused of conspiring to manufacture false evidence and procuring …
Brief • August 9, 2013
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Wilcoxson v. Buncombe Co, NC, Complaint, wrongful conviction, 2015 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE DIVISION CASE NO.____________ ROBERT WILCOXSON, Plaintiff vs. BUNCOMBE COUNTY, BOBBY MEDFORD, in his individual and official capacities, SAM CONSTANCE, in his individual capacity, GEORGE SPRINKLE, in his …
Brief • July 26, 2013
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Fields v. Wharrie, IL, Appeals Brief, Wrongful Conviction, 2013 Case: 13-1195 Document: 17 Filed: 07/26/2013 Pages: 28 NO. 13-1195 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT _____________________________________________________ NATHSON FIELDS, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. LARRY WHARRIE AND DAVID KELLEY, Defendants-Appellants. _____________________________________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for …
Publication • 2013
Police Misconduct as a Cause of Wrongful Convictions Russell Covey Wash. L. Rev. 2013 POLICE MISCONDUCT AS A CAUSE OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS RUSSELL COVEY ABSTRACT This study gathers data from two mass exonerations resulting from major police scandals, one involving the Rampart division of the L.A.P.D., and the other occurring …
Publication • 2013
Innocent Defendant's Delimma-Plea Bargining, J of Crim Law & Criminology, 2013 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Volume 103 | Issue 1 Article 1 Winter 2013 The Innocent Defendant's Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining's Innocence Problem Lucian E. Dervan Vanessa A. Edkins Ph.D. Follow this and additional …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Virginia Prisoner Pardoned After Accuser Admits She Lied by Everyone in Virginia's criminal justice system knew that Johnathan Christopher Montgomery was innocent of the crimes for which he’d been convicted. His accuser had recanted her testimony and admitted she lied to police about being molested by Montgomery more than a …
Article • May 15, 2013
No Collateral-Order Review of Refusal to Quash; Seventh Circuit Would Affirm on Merits by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a collateral-order appeal of two non-party state agencies that unsuccessfully moved to quash subpoenas. Even if it had appellate jurisdiction, however, the court …
Article • May 15, 2013
Seventh Circuit Permits Insurance Company to Deny Coverage of Civil Rights Claims by Derek Gilna The city of Waukegan, Illinois had been issued two comprehensive general liability Insurance policies, effective November 1, 1991 to November 1, 1995. Both policies contained a “law enforcement liability provision,” providing that the insurer “would …
Article • May 15, 2013
New York: USDC 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 Defense's motion to quash deposition notices and notice of subpoena in a civil case resultant …
O'Connell v. Smith, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Murder Conviction, 2013 Case 2:13-cv-01905-MWF-PJW Document 7 Filed 04/23/13 Page 1 of 34 Page ID #:77 Case 2:13-cv-01905-MWF-PJW Document 7 Filed 04/23/13 Page 2 of 34 Page ID #:78 Case 2:13-cv-01905-MWF-PJW Document 7 Filed 04/23/13 Page 3 of 34 Page ID #:79 Case 2:13-cv-01905-MWF-PJW …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Florida Innocence Commission Makes Recommendations to Prevent Wrongful Convictions by The Florida Innocence Commission's final report, presented to the Florida Supreme Court on June 25, 2012, included a number of recommendations to address issues related to wrongful convictions in the Sunshine State. Due to having one of the highest rates …
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