Skip navigation

Search

648 results
Page 23 of 33. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ... 29 30 31 32 33 | Next »

$27.4 Million Award in Liberty Interest and Deceit Claim Causing Incarceration by A South Dakota jury awarded an insurance salesman who was convicted of mail fraud $27.4 million in a lawsuit that alleged deceit and breach of fiduciary duty, causing his incarceration. Eugene Kent began selling health insurance in 1990 …
Mohave County, Arizona Appointed Counsel Selection System Unconstitutional by On April 3, 1984, the Supreme Court of Arizona held that the system of selecting and compensating appointed counsel in Mohave County, Arizona, violated the constitutional rights to due process and counsel. Joe. U. Smith was convicted of burglary, sexual assault …
Fourth Circuit: Most Police Records in DNA Exoneration Case Are Public by On October 1, 2004, the Fourth Circuit court of appeals decided that most of the sealed documents in a lawsuit involving the DNA exoneration of a man convicted of a rape-murder should be available to the public. Earl …
Attorney Fees and Costs Against Exoneree Who Lost Lawsuit Denied by On May 21, 2009, a Michigan federal court denied a motion by defendants for attorney fees and costs in an unsuccessful lawsuit brought by an exoneree. During a custody dispute with his ex-girlfriend in 1987, Mark Norman Cleary's seven-year-old …
Report Documents Scope of Prosecutorial Misconduct in California by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim In October 2010, the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) of the Santa Clara University School of Law published a study regarding the extent of prosecutorial misconduct in California. The study explores the ways in which the …
Article • April 15, 2011
A Convict's Odyssey - The journey of Mark Clements, a victim of torture by former Chicago PD officer Jon Burge by Steve Bogira A Convict's Odyssey When he was 16, Mark Clements talked his way into four life sentences. Twenty-eight years later, he talked his way out. By Steve Bogira …
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 …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
Massachusetts: Wrongful Conviction Suit Settled for $3.25 Million by The City of Boston has agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 18 years for a series of rapes he did not commit. Ulysses Charles was convicted in …
New York City Pays $9.9 Million to Settle Wrongful Conviction Suit by The City of New York will pay $9.9 million to a man who was wrongfully accused, arrested, convicted and imprisoned as the result of actions by disgraced former New York City police detective Louis J. Eppolito, who is …
Brief • February 11, 2011
USA v. Odom, DC, Mot for Post-Conviction DNA Test, Wrongful Conviction Rape, 2011 SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMB 1A. Criminal Division — Felony Division UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. Criminal No. F-2473-81 (CLOSED) KIRK L. ODOM MOTION FOR POST-CONVICTION DNA TESTING UNDER THE INNOCENCE PROTECTION ACT Kirk L. …
Medical Examiners Lack Qualifications, Competence, Oversight by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Most people will only have direct contact with a medical examiner, also known as a forensic pathologist, after they are dead. Thus, medical examiners have a certain mystic quality and are perceived as both doctors and sleuths who …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
$16 Million Award Upheld in Wrongful Conviction Resulting from Undisclosed Evidence and Relationship by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a $16 million jury verdict in a civil rights action that alleged a police detective had violated the due process rights of a defendant convicted of child molestation …
Child Porn Investigations May Snare the Innocent by Michael Rigby by Mike Rigby A new threat looms in the Internet age – the threat of improper prosecutions and wrongful convictions for the unwitting receipt, possession or attempted possession of child pornography. Everyone is at risk, as these offenses can be …
Brief • November 4, 2010
IRS excluded wrongful incarceration, Memo, IRS, 2010 Doc 2010-24317 (2 pgs) Office of Chief Counsel Internal Revenue Service memorandum Number: 201045023 Release Date: 11/12/2010 CC:ITA:B04:SAIskow PRESP-140001-10 UILC: date: to: from: subject: Third Party Communication: None Date of Communication: Not Applicable 104.03-00 November 04, 2010 David Alito Acting Director, Compliance (W&I) …
Brief • October 27, 2010
Fields v. City of Chicago, IL, Amended Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2010 Case: 1:10-cv-01168 Document #: 105 Filed: 10/27/10 Page 1 of 37 PageID #:646 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION NATHSON E. FIELDS, Plaintiff, ) ) ) v. ) ) CITY OF CHICAGO; ) COUNTY OF …
Crime Labs in Crisis: Shoddy Forensics Used to Secure Convictions by Matthew Clarke To millions of people whose knowledge of crime labs comes from television shows such as CSI, Bones, Crossing Jordan and the venerable Quincy M.E., the forensic experts who work at such labs seem to be infallible scientists …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Fake Rape Claim Puts Woman in Prison by Brandon Sample A New York woman who falsely claimed she had been raped was sentenced in February 2010 to 1 to 3 years in prison on perjury charges. In 2005, Biurny Peguero Gonzalez told investigators that William McCaffrey, a Bronx construction worker, …
Texas Controversy: Governor Guts Forensic Science Commission by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Texas Governor Rick Perry caused considerable controversy on Sept. 30, 2009 when he replaced three members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, just two days before the commission’s hearing on a report that an innocent man may …
$10 Million Settlement for Former Colorado Prisoner Cleared by DNA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 16, 2010, Colorado’s Larimer County Commission approved a $4.1 million settlement with a former prisoner who served 10 years of a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. The settlement …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$2 Million in Settlements for Wrongful Arrest, Conviction in Ohio by Two former Ohio prisoners have accepted settlements totaling $2 million after being wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. One of the men, Derris Lewis, spent 18 months in jail pending trial on murder charges. The other, Robert …
Page 23 of 33. « Previous | 1 2 3 4 ... 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ... 29 30 31 32 33 | Next »