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New York Jury Awards Wrongfully Convicted Man $18.5 Million, but Court Grants Motion to Set Aside Verdict by On November 2, 2010, a New York federal jury awarded $18.5 million to a man who was cleared of a rape conviction after serving more than two decades in prison. At the …
Fourth Circuit: Most Police Records in DNA Exoneration Case Are Public by On October 1, 2004, the Fourth Circuit court of appeals decided that most of the sealed documents in a lawsuit involving the DNA exoneration of a man convicted of a rape-murder should be available to the public. Earl …
PLRA Does Not Require Exhaustion When Prison Officials Cannot Afford Any Relief "Whatsoever," D.C. Circuit Decides by PLRA Does Not Require Exhaustion When Prison Officials Cannot Afford Any Relief "Whatsoever," D.C. Circuit Decides By Brandon Sample The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) does not require exhaustion of administrative remedies when …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
Massachusetts: Wrongful Conviction Suit Settled for $3.25 Million by The City of Boston has agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 18 years for a series of rapes he did not commit. Ulysses Charles was convicted in …
Article • March 15, 2011
Ninth Circuit: Forcible DNA Extraction Violates Fourth Amendment by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a detective’s forcible taking of a DNA sample at the request of a prosecutor violated a detainee’s clearly established Fourth Amendment rights, barring qualified immunity. Clark County Deputy District Attorney Elissa Luzaich wanted …
Brief • February 11, 2011
USA v. Odom, DC, Mot for Post-Conviction DNA Test, Wrongful Conviction Rape, 2011 SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMB 1A. Criminal Division — Felony Division UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. Criminal No. F-2473-81 (CLOSED) KIRK L. ODOM MOTION FOR POST-CONVICTION DNA TESTING UNDER THE INNOCENCE PROTECTION ACT Kirk L. …
Crime Labs in Crisis: Shoddy Forensics Used to Secure Convictions by Matthew Clarke To millions of people whose knowledge of crime labs comes from television shows such as CSI, Bones, Crossing Jordan and the venerable Quincy M.E., the forensic experts who work at such labs seem to be infallible scientists …
Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010
Fake Rape Claim Puts Woman in Prison by Brandon Sample A New York woman who falsely claimed she had been raped was sentenced in February 2010 to 1 to 3 years in prison on perjury charges. In 2005, Biurny Peguero Gonzalez told investigators that William McCaffrey, a Bronx construction worker, …
$10 Million Settlement for Former Colorado Prisoner Cleared by DNA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 16, 2010, Colorado’s Larimer County Commission approved a $4.1 million settlement with a former prisoner who served 10 years of a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. The settlement …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$2 Million in Settlements for Wrongful Arrest, Conviction in Ohio by Two former Ohio prisoners have accepted settlements totaling $2 million after being wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. One of the men, Derris Lewis, spent 18 months in jail pending trial on murder charges. The other, Robert …
Innocence Project Report on Compensation and Reentry Services for Exonerated Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at New York’s Yeshiva University. Since that time the Innocence …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
Incomplete DNA Databases Result in Tragic Consequences by Justin Miller A review by the Associated Press has found that state crime lab databanks are missing thousands of DNA samples. The missing samples and backlogs in processing those that have been collected raise questions concerning serious crimes that otherwise might have …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
DNA Exonerations in Georgia Result in Disparate Compensation Awards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The disparity in compensation awards for prisoners exonerated by DNA evidence in Georgia demonstrates the need for evenhanded compensation laws. Five wrongly convicted prisoners, Clarence Harrison, Robert Clark, Douglas Echols, Samuel Scott and Willie …
Article • June 15, 2010 • from PLN June, 2010
50,000 Illinois Felons Released Without DNA Collection by Approximately 50,000 felons have been released from Illinois prisons and discharged from probation supervision without having their DNA collected, state officials acknowledged in September 2009. Illinois law requires all felons sentenced on or after August 22, 2002 to provide a DNA sample. …
Florida Prisoner Exonerated by DNA After Serving 35 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After 35 years of proclaiming his innocence for the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old boy, James Bain, 54, was finally proven innocent and released from a Florida prison on December 17, 2009. Of …
Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010
17,698 DNA Profiles Missing from Wisconsin Database by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2009, Wisconsin officials discovered that the profiles of 17,698 convicted felons were missing from the state’s DNA database. An investigation into Milwaukee serial killer suspect Walter E. Ellis revealed that his DNA was not in …
Washington State DNA Collection Fee Affirmed on Appeal by On October 15, 2008, Brandy Brewster of Washington State was convicted by a jury for possession of cocaine, for which she was arrested almost two years previously on November 15, 2006. At her sentencing on December 8, 2008, Ms. Brewster was …
Article • January 15, 2010
Minnesota Holds DNA Testing Upon Arrest Unconstitutional by The Minnesota Court of Appeals has declared unconstitutional a state law mandating that biological samples be drawn for DNA testing upon arrest. A DNA sample may be taken for the purpose of producing evidence of a crime, but only after a warrant …
Supreme Court: No Due Process Right to Post-Conviction DNA Testing by On March 2, 2009, the United States Supreme Court ruled that there is no federal substantive due process right to post-conviction DNA testing. William G. Osborne, an Alaska state prisoner, was convicted of a 1993 kidnapping, assault and sexual …
$16.5 Million-Plus Settlement in Oklahoma City False Conviction Case by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 8, 2009, a federal district judge in Oklahoma City signed a judgment following the settlement of a suit awarding a man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not …
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