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Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$13,655,940 Award For False Massachusetts Rape Conviction by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On October 4, 2006, a federal court in Massachusetts awarded $13,655,940 to a man falsely convicted of rape. Eric Sarsfield was living in Marlborough, Massachusetts in July 1987 when Ms. Toni Gustus was raped in the …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
Louisville, Kentucky, Settles with Wrongly Imprisoned Man for $3.9 Million by A man who spent seven years in prison for a rape he didn?t commit will receive $3.9 million from the city of Louisville, Kentucky, according to a February 12, 2007 settlement agreement. William Gregory, now 59, was convicted in …
$9,063,000 Jury Award For Illinois False Rape Conviction by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On October 23, 2006, a federal jury in Illinois awarded a man who had been falsely convicted of rape $9,063,000. On September 19, 1989, Alejandro Dominguez was a 16-year old living in an apartment complex …
$2.25 Million Award for Virginia Man Falsely Sent to Death Row by A federal jury awarded a Virginia man $2.25 million for being falsely convicted of a rape/murder based on evidence fabricated by a cop and spending ten years on death row. Earl Washington, then 23, was convicted of a …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
City of Detroit Must Record Suspect Confessions; $4 Million Wrongful Incarceration Award by A Michigan federal district court has approved a settlement that requires the City of Detroit to record all interrogations of criminal suspects and awards the estate of a wrongfully convicted man $4,075,000. The complaint in this action …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Missouri Legislature Allows Wrongfully Convicted to Receive Compensation by The Missouri Legislature has enacted legislation to compensate all persons declared "actually innocent" after DNA testing. In the last 15 years, five such prisoners in Missouri were released after being exonerated by DNA testing. The latest action by that legislature sought …
Negligent Public Defender Defense Against Dirty Los Angeles Cops Nets Falsely Convicted Man $6.5 Million; Court Vacates Verdict Million; Court Vacates Verdict by John Dannenberg Negligent Public Defender Defense Against Dirty Los Angeles Cops Nets Falsely Convicted Man $6.5 Million; Court Vacates Verdict by John E. Dannenberg A Los Angeles …
Two Wrongfully Imprisoned Michigan Men Receive $2.75 Million Partial Settlement by Two Wrongfully Imprisoned Michigan Men Receive $2.75 Million Partial Settlement On November 2, 2001 two Michigan men who were wrongfully imprisoned for eight years before their convictions were overturned reached a $2.75 million partial settlement with the prosecuting county. …
Missouri Supreme Court Allows Actual Innocence Claims in Death Penalty Habeas by By Matthew T. Clarke In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Missouri (SCM) has held that a death-sentenced prisoner may raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence in a state habeas petition. Joseph Amrine, formerly …
Article • May 15, 2007
California Federal Court Awards Falsely Arrested/Imprisoned Man $850,000 by On December 31, 2003, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California awarded $850,000 to a man who was falsely arrested and imprisoned for seven weeks due to misidentification by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). In 1999, the …
$500,000 Verdict in Pennsylvania Legal Malpractice Claim by The plaintiff in this case was charged with rape and indecent assault against a woman who was present at an orgy. Plaintiff said the matter was a consensual encounter. Plaintiff was held in Pennsylvania's Holmesburg Prison in lieu of 10% of a …
Article • May 15, 2007
$350,000 Awarded in Pennsylvania False Rape Charges by The plaintiff in this case was accused of raping the defendant at knife point in January 1985. The plaintiff was convicted and sentenced to 7.5 to 15 years in prison. The defendant claimed she received threatening letters and phone calls at the …
Ohio: Wrongfully Convicted Man Awarded $641,858 Against Attorney by On August 22, 2002, an Ohio jury awarded a man who spent four years in prison $641,858 against the attorney who represented him in his criminal trial. Plaintiff Michael Javorina had been charged with, among other things, attempted murder and felonious …
FBI Not Liable for Wrongful Incarceration of Federal Prisoner for Eight Years by The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed former federal prisoner Frank Boldoc's civil rights complaint for eight years of wrongful incarceration. Boldoc and another former federal prisoner, Francis Larkin, filed this claim under …
Confession Not Linked to Tasering by The plaintiff's allegation that while in jail in Gwinnett county awaiting trial he was held in solitary confinement, shocked with a stun gun, and denied a shower for three months did not render his confession involuntary because he did not show a causal relationship. …
Police Denied Qualified Immunity for Fabricated Evidence by The Fourth Circuit court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's denial of summary judgment to a Virginia State Police agent who fabricated evidence in a capital case. Rebecca Williams was raped and murdered on June 4, 1982. Before she died, Williams stated …
§ 1983 Seeking Post Trial DNA Evidence Not Heck Barred by The Ninth Circuit joined the Eleventh circuit in holding that a § 1983 action seeking post-conviction access to DNA evidence is not barred by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 US 477 (1994). In 1994, William Osborne was convicted of kidnapping …
Innocent Idaho Prisoner Receives $900,000 for 21 Years Wrongful Incarceration by After spending nearly twenty-one years incarcerated for murder, Donald M. Paradis was released from Idaho?s death row on April 10, 2001. Now, just over fiver years later, Paradis is set to receive $900,000 for his wrongful conviction and incarceration. …
Article • May 15, 2007
Exculpatory DNA Evidence Insufficient for New Trial by The Eighth District Court of Appeals of Ohio, in a split decision, has reversed the grant of a new trial to an Ohio prisoner by the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. Frederick Luckett, an Ohio prisoner, was convicted at jury trial …
Article • May 15, 2007
Habeas Corpus Granted; State Used Wrong Standard to Convict by The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing the federal district court of New Mexico, held that a New Mexico prisoner was wrongly convicted of child abuse when the state court applied the civil negligence standard rather than the criminal …
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