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Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
California Pays Innocent Prisoner $328,000 for Nine Years in Prison by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg For only the twelfth time since 1981, California paid a wrongfully imprisoned person for his troubles. After serving nine years of a 27-life 1995 sentence for rape, a 38 year-old man was recently …
Article • February 15, 2006 • from PLN February, 2006
Utah DOC Settles Wrongful-Death Suit Involving Exonerated Suspect For $150,000 by by Michael Rigby On September 29, 2004, the widow of a one-time suspect in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping settled her wrongful-death lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections (DOC) for $150,000. When 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her …
Article • December 15, 2005 • from PLN December, 2005
Wrongfully Convicted Kentucky Man Wins $590,000 Judgment Against Defense Attorney by On June 3, 2004, a Louisville, Kentucky, jury awarded $590,000 to a wrongfully convicted man who spent two years in prison because his defense counsel was negligent. Plaintiff Gary Puckett and his mother Peggy Puckett were at their home …
North Carolina Prosecutors Reprimanded For Intentionally Withholding Crucial Exculpatory Evidence in by North Carolina Prosecutors Reprimanded For Intentionally Withholding Crucial Exculpatory Evidence in Capital Case by Matthew T. Clarke Alan Gell cried recently after a North Carolina State Bar panel issued a mere reprimand, the least discipline possible, to two …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Overturned Conviction Nets Baltimore Man $1.4 Million by Maryland's Board of Public Works (BPW) awarded a Baltimore man $1.4 million for spending 27 years on a faulty murder conviction. In 1974, Michael Austin, then 25, was convicted for the murder of a grocery store security guard. Austin was not only …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
Tulia Undercover Deputy Tom Coleman Convicted of Perjury by Hans Sherrer Tom Coleman was on top of the world after being honored as the Texas Department of Public Safety's 1999 Outstanding Lawman of the Year. The award was for his undercover investigation between January 1998 and July 1999 in the …
Article • November 15, 2005 • from PLN November, 2005
New York City Settles Wrongful Imprisonment Suit For $1 Million by On February 4, 2005, a man convicted of murder and wrongfully imprisoned for five years based on testimony fabricated by prosecutors settled his claim against the City of New York for $1,000,000. Milton Lantigua, 20,was sitting in front of …
Article • October 15, 2005
Lives (and Votes) Lost by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg From City Belt (www.citybelt.org) Lives (and Votes) Lost Prisoners, parolees and probationers cannot vote in New Jersey -- but for one former prisoner who was wrongfully convicted and can, it's the last thing on his mind. By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Nothing ties Larry Peterson …
North Carolina Prosecutors Reprimanded For Intentionally Withholding Crucial Exculpatory Evidence in Capital Case by by Matthew T. Clarke Alan Gell cried recently after a North Carolina State Bar panel issued a mere reprimand, the least discipline possible, to two former prosecutors who withheld evidence in his capital murder case. "Here …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
$800,000 Awarded to Wrongly Convicted Tennessee Man by After maintaining his innocence for 22 years, Clark McMillan was released from prison after DNA evidence cleared him of raping a 16 year-old in 1980. McMillan was released from a Tennessee prison in 2002 after DNA testing revealed a former Memphis resident …
Louisiana Prison Writer Free After 44 Years by Michael Rigby Award-winning prison journalist and civil rights figure Wilbert Rideau, once described as “the most rehabilitated prisoner in America,” is free after spending more than four decades behind bars. Ironically, Rideau’s freedom came not from being exonerated, but from being found …
Maricopa County, Arizona, Settles Wrongful Imprisonment Suit For $1.4 Million by On April 6, 2005, a man falsely imprisoned for a decade on Arizona's death row settled with Maricopa County for $1.4 million. Ray Krone, once dubbed the snaggletooth" killer, was sentenced to death in 1992 based on testimony that …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
$95,000 Settlement For Imprisonment Based On Falsified Police Report by by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles, California County Sheriff's Department sought $95,000 authority from the L.A. County Claims Board (Board) to settle a wrongful incarceration federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a plaintiff whose conviction had been predicated upon …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Texas Now Requires D.A.'s Approval For Wrongful Conviction Compensation by by Matthew T. Clarke An amendment to the 2001 Texas law allowing compensation of the wrongly convicted requires that people applying for compensation present a letter from the district attorney who convicted them certifying the person's innocence. In 2001, State …
First Circuit Rejects Interlocutory Appeal for Authorities Accused of Frame-Up by by Robert H. Woodman In a case involving charges of frame-up and cover-up by former Massachusetts and federal authorities brought by former Massachusetts state prisoners, their family members, estates, and survivors, the United States First Circuit Court of Appeals …
Wrongfully-Convicted Missouri Woman Receives $7.5 Million After 16 Years in Prison by Wrongfully-Convicted Missouri Woman Receives $7.5 Million After 16 Years in Prison by Matthew T. Clarke On September 14, 2004, the St. Louis suburb of Dellwood settled a suit by a woman wrongfully convicted of murder for $7.5 million. …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Last Chance For Washington Prisoners To Request Postconviction DNA Testing is December 31, 2004 by Washington state prisoners who believe DNA evidence may prove their innocence must file a request for postconviction DNA testing by December 31, 2004. Starting January 1, 2005, a defendant must raise DNA issues at trial …
Wrongfully Convicted Pennsylvania Prisoner Settles for $2.3 Million; Forensics Expert Fired by A wrongfully convicted ex-prisoner who spent 15-years in a Pennsylvania prison got modest compensation from the government that imprisoned him by winning a $2.3 million settlement in the lawsuits he filed. In Washington state, a forensic scientist was …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Austin, Texas, Settles Wrongful Conviction Suit for $9 Million by by Matthew T. Clarke On July 17, 2003, the City of Austin, Texas settled for $9 million a suit brought by the guardian of a wrongfully convicted Texas prisoner. Richard Danziger, 31, a wrongfully convicted Texas state prisoner, spent 12 …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
The Complicity of Judges in Wrongful Convictions by Hans Sherrer The Complicity of Judges In Wrongful Convictions by Hans Sherrer I. Introduction Wrongful convictions do not occur in a vacuum of judicial indifference. Every wrongful conviction results from a deliberative process involving law enforcement investigators, prosecutors, and one or more …
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