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Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape by Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a Puerto Rico Federal Bureau of Prison guard's conviction …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Conviction Upheld For Constructive Possession Of Weapon In Cell by The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld Fulton County prisoner Kristopher Abney's conviction for possessing material capable of causing bodily injury and affirmed his seven-year DOC sentence. Abney was found guilty at a jury trial and he appealed the conviction …
Article • May 15, 2007
WA Prisoner's Rights Not Violated by Interrogation Without a Lawyer or Miranda Warnings by WA Prisoner's Rights Not Violated by Interrogation Without a Lawyer or Miranda Warnings Darrell Everybodytalksabout was convicted of 1st degree murder for the stabbing death of Rigel Jones in 1996. While the case was on appeal …
Article • May 15, 2007
Washington Prisoner Prevails In Alleged Failure To Register As Sex Offender by Washington State prisoner Gilbert Stratton was convicted by a Cowlitz County trial court of failure to register as a sex offender. Stratton had defaulted on the purchase of a residence but received permission from the real estate agency …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Guilty Of Introduction Of Marijuana Into County Jail by State prisoner Gary Yarbro was found guilty of introducing marijuana into the Hardin County (Tennessee) jail in a tube of toothpaste upon reporting to serve a forty-five day sentence on an unrelated charge. Yarbro was allowed to bring a clothes …
Article • May 15, 2007
Preemptive Prisoner Assault Not Justified As Self Defense by In an unpublished opinion by the California Court of Appeals, State prisoner Travis Thompson, an African-American, was denied a defense of preemptive assault upon a Hispanic prisoner, allegedly to prevent such an attack upon him. Thompson was found guilty of assault …
Article • May 15, 2007
WA Conviction of Possession of a Controlled Substance Affirmed by Gary Hutt was a prisoner in the Grant County Jail in Ephrata, Washington. In November of 2003 Paul Holland left drugs in a toilet tank at a medical center across the street from the jail, where a prisoner pretending to …
Prison Disciplinary Action Does Not Bar Later Criminal Proceedings by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a federal district court in the Virgin Islands' denial of a motion to dismiss a prisoner's criminal charges of assault in the third degree and possession of a weapon. Wilfredo Diaz was …
Actual Innocence Required in Washington Criminal Malpractice Actions by Actual Innocence Required in Washington Criminal Malpractice Actions In a 5-4 decision, the Washington Supreme Court held that plaintiffs suing criminal defense attorneys for legal malpractice must prove that they are innocent of the underlying criminal charge. Dr. Jessy Ang and …
Article • May 15, 2007
Texas Prisoner's Rights Not Violated by Not Allowing Him to Represent Himself at Trial for Tattooing by Texas Prisoner's Rights Not Violated by Not Allowing Him to Represent Himself at Trial for Tattooing Fellow Prisoner On March 3, 2002, Timothy Worstell, a Texas State prisoner, forcibly tattooed the words child …
TN DNA Collection Statute Held Constitutional by Bruce Scarborough and Mack Transou, Tennessee state prisoners, are both convicted sex-offenders. Upon their admission to the state prison system both were asked to provide blood samples for DNA testing per Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-35-3231, et seq. (DNA Statute). Had they refused …
Article • May 15, 2007
WA Prisoners Who Assault Guards Knowing That They're Guards are Guilty of Custodial Assault by WA Prisoners Who Assault Guards Knowing That They're Guards are Guilty of Custodial Assault While incarcerated in the Spokane County Jail, Perry Ashelman splashed urine under his cell door onto Shaun Campbell's shoes and pants. …
Eight Tennessee Guards Convicted in Prisoners’ Beatings, Death by Gary Hunter Eight Tennessee Guards Convicted in Prisoners? Beatings, Death by Gary Hunter Walter "Steve" Kuntz was beaten to death by jailers in Wilson County, Tennessee. His murder led to a federal investigation, the indictment of nine jailers, six guilty pleas …
Florida Warden Susceptible to Liability in Valdes’ Murder; Suit Settles for $1,169,923.42 by David Reutter Florida Warden Susceptible to Liability in Valdes' Murder; Suit Settles for $1,169,923.42 by David M. Reutter While former Florida Department of Corrections director James Crosby was never charged in the murder of Florida death row …
Sheriff’s Deputies Charged in Prisoner’s Death; Both Get Prison Time by Gary Hunter Sheriff's Deputies Charged in Prisoner's Death; Both Get Prison Time by Gary Hunter Jail guards Ronald Eugene Parker and Brandon Gray Huie were charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a prisoner in North …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Bernard Kerik Pleads Guilty; Has Name Removed From New York City Jail by Gary Hunter Former New York Police Chief Bernard B. Kerik, proclaimed hero of 9/11, fell to his lowest point yet after pleading guilty to two unclassified misdemeanor charges on June 30, 2006. Kerik, also a former Director …
Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby "Lock them up and throw away the key." Like the rest of the nation, this overriding penal philosophy in Maryland has led to a criminal justice system that is defunct at every level. The state's adult prisons are "in crisis." …
Sacramento Jail Rampant with Excessive Force and Brutality by Gary Hunter Imagine six million candles of light and the noise level of a jet plane taking off inside an average 6'x10' jail cell. That's what Courtney Countee, Jessie Kerwin, Daniel Lucas, Jason Morrison, Cladius Jefferson and Michael Toro endured at …
New York’s Prison System Infested With Drugs by David Reutter New York's Prison System Infested With Drugs by David M. Reutter The most glaring result of America's war on drugs has been the explosion of the nation?s prison population. Over 75 percent of all prisoners are either doing time for …
High Ranking Louisiana Prison Official Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges by Gary Hunter On June 29, 2006, Louisiana prison administrator James H. Leslie, 55, was formally indicted on federal charges of tampering with a witness. The indictment was returned on February 16, 2006 but remained sealed so as not to …
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