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Court Reporter Jailed for Botching VitaPro Trial Transcripts; Convicted Prison Chief Still Free by The latest development in the unsavory Texas VitaPro scandal is the jailing of a court reporter for botching the transcripts in the VitaPro trial. In 1995, George W. Bush was the governor of Texas and James …
Sexual Abuse at Haltom City Jail in Texas by by Matthew T. Clarke Allegations of sexual abuse have rocked the North Texas town of Haltom City. The allegations surfaced in March, 2001, when a Fort Worth woman filed a complaint with the Haltom City police stating that jailer Clint Wade …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Stun Belt Prejudice Reverses California Conviction by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The California Supreme Court overturned a three-strikes conviction and remanded the case for a new trial because of the potential for psychological prejudice from a remote-controlled electronic stun belt on a defendant's demeanor during testimony, where …
Kansas Sheriff, Lawyer, Jailed for Sweetheart Jail Contract by Negotiating their way out of 21 felony bribery charges, a former Kansas sheriff and a lawyer-cum-executive for a private prison contractor each pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of conflict of interest on December 18, 2002, getting only one year in …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
U.S. Supreme Court: Reviving Expired Statute of Limitations Violates Ex Post Facto by U.S. Supreme Court: Reviving Expired Statute of Limitations Violates Ex Post Facto Clause Reversing the California Court of Appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California's recent law reviving criminal liability for previously time-barred prosecutions violated the …
BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm for Mobsters by Gary Hunter BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm For Mobsters by Gary Hunter On March 1, 2002, the U.S. District court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania denied the motion of a mobster's wife requesting the return of her incarcerated husband's sperm. Circumstances leading to …
Deaths and Beatings Rampant in Texas' Nueces County Jail by Gary Hunter Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi Texas has become a regular source of dead and beaten prisoners. Ten prisoners have died in the jail between 1996 and 2000. Two cases have already cost the county $2 million and …
Louisiana Guards' Conviction Upheld in Prisoner's Beating by A jury's conviction of three guards at the Louisianan State Penitentiary at Angola in the assault and beating of prisoner Raymond Jackson has been affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Sergeant Harrison Daniels was convicted in the assault, and denying …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by by Matthew T. Clarke On May 1, 2002, two guards and an assistant warden were convicted in federal court of charges relating to the beating of a Philadelphia prisoner. In the latest of a series of settlements for …
Dallas Police Convicted of Framing Drug Defendants, DA Refuses to Help Innocent Prisoners by by Matthew T. Clarke In April, 2000, former Dallas police officers Quentis Roper and Daniel Maples were convicted of extorting more than $125,000 from drug dealers and illegal immigrants and falsifying evidence against those who refused …
California Prison Guards' Attorneys Convicted in Dog Mauling by Marvin Mentor On March 21, 2002, a San Francisco, California husband and wife attorney team, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who for years had defended prison guards at maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP), were themselves convicted of manslaughter when …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Kansas Tobacco Smuggling Conviction Upheld by The Kansas Supreme Court upheld Audra Watson's conviction for smuggling tobacco into the county jail in Pratt County, Kansas. That court rejected Watson's argument that the statute under which she was convicted, KSA § 21-3826, was unconstitutionally vague and could not be applied to …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Secretly Recorded California Jail Phone Conversations May Be Used to Convict by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The California Supreme Court held that jail detainees' unprivileged (non-attorney) phone conversations and visits may be secretly recorded and that that information may be used to convict. This ruling, which reversed …
Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Matthew T. Clarke On May 1, 2002, two guards and an assistant warden were convicted in federal court of charges relating to the beating of a …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Texas Parole Officer Hires Parolee for Murder by Gary Hunter In May 2002, Texas Parole Officer Connie Lynn Stones pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation of capital murder after police recorded her trying to hire a hit-man to kill her lover's girlfriend. Stone was in love with Brett Williams, who …
Texas Prison Guard Charged with Raping Male Prisoner; Prisoner Files §1983 Complaint by Texas Prison Guard Charged with Raping Male Prisoner; Prisoner Files §1983 Complaint Nathan Essary, a slightly built 22-year-old prisoner, was gang-raped at the Rogelio Sanchez State Jail near El Paso, Texas. Following the rape, Essary was transferred …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Twenty Years for Flinging Feces on Texas Guards by On June 23, 2002, in the first case prosecuted before a jury under a new harassment law, a Texas jury convicted a prisoner of harassment and sentenced him to 20-years in prison. Jeffery Wayne Wheatly, a 35-year old Texas state prisoner, …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Texas Guard's Conviction Reversed by A Texas court of appeals has reversed for retrial the conviction of former Texas City Unit TDCJ-ID guard Charles Melvin Page for sexual assault and impersonating a police officer. Page was convicted of having flashed a badge, claimed he was a cop, and demanded oral …
Failure to Allege Imminent Threat Precludes Justification Defenses in BOP Weapons Prosecution by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the district court did not error in excluding evidence or argument regarding affirmative defenses of necessity and duress in trials for prisoners' weapon possession. On May 18, 1999, Terry …
Murder, Mayhem, Corruption and Snitches: BOP Florence Exposed by Bob Williams Located in the gently rolling hills of Southern Colorado, dotted with juniper, poplar and cedar trees, Florence is a quiet, small town that was once a prison town without a prison. At just over 5,000 town residents, Florence shares …
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