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Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
Bill Introduced to Exempt Wrongfully Convicted from Federal Income Taxes by Bill Introduced to Exempt Wrongfully Convicted from Federal Income Taxes On December 6, 2007, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and Sam Brown (R-KS) introduced a bill to exempt wrongfully convicted former prisoners from having to pay federal income …
$1.95 Million for 18 Years Wrongful Imprisonment in North Carolina by On February 16, 2007, a North Carolina man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit settled with the State and the City of Winston-Salem for $1,958,454. Darryl Hunt, a black man, was imprisoned in …
Publication • October 6, 2008
Addressing the Evidentiary Sources of Wrongful Convictions, Southwestern University Law Review, 2008 LITTLE M ACRO.DOC 10/6/08 11:23 PM ADDRESSING THE EVIDENTIARY SOURCES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS: CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE IN CAPITAL STATUTES Rory K. Little∗ In an effort to provoke realistic remedial thinking,1 this essay presents and discusses a proposed …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
New York Man Wins $640,000 for Unjust Incarceration by The state of New York has agreed to pay $640,000 to a man who it unjustly incarcerated for five years to dismiss the lawsuit he filed after his convictions were vacated because the evidence clearly indicated that he wasn’t involved in …
Article • August 15, 2008
California Prisoner Wrongly Jailed for 14 Years Denied Compensation by John Tennison, a California state prisoner, was sent to prison for a 1989 murder. After nearly 14 years his conviction was vacated with a finding of factual innocence. He sued for compensation under a state law providing an award of …
Exonerated Montana Prisoner Sues State, Receives $3.5 Million by In January 2008, the state of Montana settled a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner who had been wrongfully convicted of raping a child, paying him $3.5 million. The settlement was the largest amount the state had ever paid for a …
Production Denial Of California Investigative Jailhouse Informant Misuse Documents Ordered Reviewed by Ex California State prisoner Thomas Goldstein sought review of an order denying him grand jury investigative evidentiary materials for use in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for wrongful conviction. The materials had a direct relationship to his …
8th Circuit Upholds Dismissal of False Imprisonment Action by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Defendants on a false imprisonment claim. On January 2, 1983, James Buckley was murdered in St. Louis, Missouri. Ellen Maria Reasonover came forward as a witness …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Innocent California Prisoner Freed After Nine Years; Paid $1 Million by An innocent man sentenced in 1995 to 27 years for raping and kidnapping a 13-year-old girl was freed by the California Innocence Project after serving 3,280 days in prison. In his subsequent suit for wrongful incarceration, he received $1 …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Innocent California Prisoner Paid $3,171,000 For 12 Years Wrongful incarceration by An East Palo Alto, California auto mechanic who served 12 years in state prison for a first degree murder he did not commit was paid $421,000 by the state plus $2.75 million by the County of Santa Clara. Rick …
Brief • April 21, 2008
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
In re McCray, et. al., NY, Amended Complaint, Central Park Five Wrongful Conviction, 2008 Case 1:03-cv-09685-RLE Document 47 Filed 04/21/08 Page 1 of 30 Myron Beldock, Esq. (MB-4076) Karen Dippold, Esq. (KD-2966) Sofia Yakren, Esq. (SY-4874) Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP 99 Park Avenue - Suite 1600 New York, New …
Article • March 15, 2008 • from PLN March, 2008
Ohio Man Paid $1.5 Million for 26 Years' Wrongful Imprisonment by In April 2007, an Ohio jury awarded $1.5 million to Plaintiff Gary James, who spent 26 years in prison for a robbery and murder he didn't commit. James, now 54, and his friend, Timothy Howard, were arrested in 1976 …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Wrongfully Imprisoned Ohio Man Settles With State for $260,000 by On April 10, 2007, the State of Ohio paid $260,000 to a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for four years. Plaintiff Dartangnan Hill, a former gang leader, was convicted in May 2001 on charges of home invasion. Hill was accused …
Article • December 15, 2007
Prima Facie Showing of Actual Innocence Defeats Texas Successive Writ Rule by On April 4, 2007, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals held that a state prisoner may defeat the rule against filing a successive state application for a writ of habeas corpus, Article 11.07, Section 4, Texas Code of …
Innocent Indiana Man Awarded $9 Million for 20 Years Imprisonment by An Indiana federal jury awarded Larry Mayes $9 million for actions taken by police officers of Indiana's City of Hammond, which resulted in Mayes being convicted of a rape he did not commit. As a result of those actions, …
$14 Million Verdict Against Louisiana DA’s Office for Wrongful Death Sentence by $14 Million Verdict Against Louisiana DA's Office for Wrongful Death Sentence The New Orleans Parish, Louisiana, District Attorney's Office should pay $14 million to a man who was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to the state's death …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Texas Allows Actual Innocence Claim in Non-Capital Habeas Actions by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has held that a habeas corpus applicant may raise a free-standing claim of actual innocence in a state habeas corpus proceeding. Randolph Roy Sparks, a Texas state prisoner, filed a post-conviction petition for a …
Massachusetts District Court: FBI Ordered to Pay $101.7 Million for Malicious Prosecution by Michael Rigby A federal judge in Massachusetts has awarded $101.7 million to four innocent men who were framed by the FBI for a murder they did not commit. In a scathing 228-page decision entered on July 26, …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
$1.2 Million Compensation Package Approved For Wrongfully Convicted Georgia Man by Who can put a price on wrongful imprisonment? The Georgia legislature can. On March 19, 2007, the Georgia House of Representatives approved a $1.2 million compensation package for a man who spent 23 years in prison for a rape …
Brief • July 26, 2007
Limone v. USA, MA, Order, Damages for Wrongful Convictions by FBI, 2007 Case 1:02-cv-10890-NG Document 565 Filed 07/26/2007 Page 1 of 228 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS PETER J. LIMONE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant. ) ) ) ) Civ. Action No. …
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