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Article • April 15, 2013
Wrongfully Convicted New York Man Receives Settlements for $950,000 by A New York man has settled lawsuits related to his wrongful conviction for $950,000. The settlements were to resolve litigation against the founders of the Innocence Project and the City of New York. Lee Long, who brought the litigation, had …
Who Polices Prosecutors Who Abuse Their Authority? Usually Nobody by Joaquin Sapien by Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, and Sergio Hernandez, Special to ProPublica The murder case against Tony Bennett seemed pretty straightforward. Shortly before midnight on May 7, 1994, police found a 26-year-old man in the foyer of an apartment building …
Lasting Damage: A Rogue Prosecutor’s Final Case by Joaquin Sapien ProPublica Among the thousands of prosecutors who have tried cases in the name of the people of New York City, Claude Stuart came to hold a handful of unfortunate distinctions: • He was a serial abuser of his authority. State …
U.S. Citizens Mistakenly Snared, Deported by DHS and ICE by Derek Gilna An increasing number of American citizens have been questioned, detained and even deported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as a result of databases that incorrectly identify them as undocumented …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Former New York Prisoner Exonerated, Receives $2 Million Settlement by A man whose conviction was overturned after spending 10 years in prison has settled his wrongful conviction suit against the State of New York for $2 million. Michael Clancy, 25, was working as an apprentice elevator mechanic when he was …
Kuri v. City of Chicago, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2013 Case: 1:13-cv-01653 Document #: 1 Filed: 03/04/13 Page 1 of 14 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, EASTERN DIVISION ANTHONY KURI, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) THE CITY OF CHICAGO, ) …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Sets Aside Convictions Based on Actual Innocence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In a 7-0 opinion with two judges not participating, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held on February 15, 2012 that a former prisoner who claimed exculpatory evidence was withheld in his …
Illinois: Current Insurer Must Pay Wrongful Conviction Award after Exoneration by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a federal district court’s determination “that, under Illinois law, the issuer of the policy in force on the date a convict is exonerated must defend and indemnify an insured whose law-enforcement …
Former California Prison Guard Resentenced Following Assault Conviction by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a 51-month sentence imposed on a former California prison guard convicted of assaulting two prisoners, on the ground that during sentencing the district court had relied on unreliable allegations made by a jailhouse …
Texas Supreme Court Rules Compensation Required in Schlup-type Innocence Cases by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 18, 2012, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a former prisoner whose murder conviction was reversed due to ineffective assistance of counsel after he proved that he was likely actually innocent …
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
Scientific Advances in Arson Investigations Reveal Wrongful Convictions by Michael Rigby by Mike Rigby Current scientific knowledge is shattering the long-held traditional beliefs of arson investigators and exposing wrongful convictions in the process. Still, old-school fire inspectors, detectives and even some judges have been slow to embrace new scientific methods …
North Carolina Governor Pardons Wilmington 10 by In 1971, during a time of racial unrest in Wilmington, North Carolina, shortly after schools were integrated and amid protests and race-based violence, a white-owned business, Mike’s Grocery, was firebombed. Responding firefighters claimed they were targeted by gunfire from unknown shooters at a …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Misconduct at U.S. Army Lab Taints Hundreds of Military Prosecutions by Derek Gilna Pentagon investigators are looking into allegations that an analyst at the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL) botched hundreds of DNA tests, casting doubt about lab results in hundreds of prosecutions. An accused soldier who was forced …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Fifth Circuit Reverses $250,000 Award to Mississippi Prisoner Held too Long by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Christopher B. Epps, the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), was entitled to qualified immunity after a prisoner was held beyond the date …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
West Memphis Three Released, but Justice Not Served and Questions Remain by Joe Watson In August 2011, a trio of Arkansas state prisoners, widely known as the West Memphis Three, walked out of prison after serving more than 18 years for a brutal triple homicide they did not commit. They …
Texas Compensates Exonerees Unequally by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A succession of laws, cumulating in the most generous compensation package for wrongly convicted prisoners in the nation, has left Texas exonerees stuck at different levels of compensation depending on when they were proven innocent. Consequently, some earlier exonerees now …
$2.3 Million Jury Award in Washington, D.C. Wrongful Parole Revocation Suit by A District of Columbia (D.C.) federal jury has awarded $2.3 million to a former prisoner who spent ten years in prison after his parole was wrongfully revoked based on unreliable hearsay evidence. Charles Singletary was convicted of robbery, …
Brief • July 18, 2012
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Hampton v. City of Chicago, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2012 Case: 1:12-cv-05650 Document #: 1 Filed: 07/18/12 Page 1 of 19 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION PATRICK HAMPTON, Plaintiff, vs. CITY OF CHICAGO, Former Chicago Police Detective MICHAEL DUFFIN, Former Chicago …
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
Florida DNA Mix-Up Raises Questions about Rapist’s Conviction 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 there was a problem: Lingard had been in prison for the past four …
Wrongful Convictions Prove Costly, Especially for the Wrongly Convicted by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 6, 2011, the Better Government Association (BGA) and the Center on Wrongful Convictions (CWC) at Northwestern University School of Law released a joint report on the cost of wrongful convictions. The report, which …
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