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Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Two Charged with Scamming $2.6 Million from Prisoners and Prisoners’ Families by Two Michigan men have been charged with defrauding thousands of prisoners and their families nationwide out of an estimated $2.6 million. Their scheme targeted black and Hispanic prisoners with direct mailings that offered to provide legal and appellate …
Los Angeles ADA Agrees to Pay $1.2 Million to Settle DUI Suit by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim On July 19, 2011, Marilyn Seymour, an Assistant District Attorney for Los Angeles County, agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two women who suffered injuries when Seymour, …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Federal Judge Sanctions Florida Sheriff’s Attorney for Threatening Plaintiff with Arrest by On February 10, 2011, a federal judge admonished and sanctioned a Florida lawyer defending Nassau County Sheriff Tommy Seagraves for using information obtained from the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database to threaten with arrest a plaintiff in …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Texas State Bar, Exonerated Ex-Prisoners File Suit Against Attorney Over Fees by The State Bar of Texas has filed a lawsuit against Lubbock attorney Kevin Glasheen, alleging that he grossly overcharged clients in violation of the Bar’s Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. Glasheen, who represents over a dozen exonerated former …
Article • November 15, 2011
Attorney Admonished for Improper Advertising by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample On December 26, 2006, the Florida Bar admonished an attorney for sending improper advertisements to prisoners. David Milo Lamos, a Florida attorney, sent a direct mail advertisement to prisoners. The advertisement contained statements creating “unjustified expectations,” was not marked …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Louisiana Attorney Permanently Disbarred but Not Criminally Charged for Pimping Child to Jail Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An attorney’s failure to respect the authority of the Louisiana Supreme Court, “as well as his use of his position as an attorney to obtain sexual gratification at the …
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Clarifies Erroneous Conviction Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 23, 2010, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a pair of opinions that clarify the requirements for suing the state for compensation following an erroneous conviction. Specifically, the Court clarified the requirement that the …
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Conviction Affirmed for Former Prisoner Who Posed as Lawyer by by Brandon Sample Howard O. Kieffer “is not an attorney, never obtained a college degree and has never attended law school or passed a bar exam,” wrote the Chief Judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, in affirming Kieffer’s …
$50,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging CCA Counsel Falsified Court Documents by The District of Columbia paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit by prisoner George Carter that claimed Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) counsel falsified court orders in his habeas corpus proceeding. While at D.C.’s Central Treatment Facility (CTF) Carter was, …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
Alabama’s Indigent Defense System “Perfect Storm” for Ineffective Assistance by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Alabama’s right-to-counsel system has the ‘perfect storm’ of characteristics that virtually guarantee ineffective assistance of counsel to the poor,” observed David Carroll, research director for the National Legal Aid & Defender Association. Carroll was …
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
U.S. Supreme Court: Counsel Must Advise Immigrant Defendants of Deportation Risks by An immigrant charged with a criminal offense must be advised of the deportation consequences associated with pleading guilty, the U.S. Supreme Court held on March 31, 2010. Jose Padilla was charged with drug trafficking after he was caught …
Controversy Over Texas Attorneys Charging Questionable Fees in Wrongful Conviction Cases by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 17, 2009, Steven Charles Phillips, a former Texas prisoner who spent 24 years in prison on a rape charge before being exonerated in 2008, filed suit in Dallas County district court …
Louisiana Judge, Attorneys Plead Guilty to Bribery Charges by Michael Brodheim In October 2009, following plea negotiations with federal prosecutors, a Louisiana judge and two lawyers pleaded guilty for their roles in a bail bond-rigging conspiracy that allowed about 100 prisoners over a five-year period to get out of jail …
Article • July 15, 2010 • from PLN July, 2010
Convictions Upheld in Appeal of Lynne Stewart, Attorney to Blind Sheikh, but Case Remanded for Resentencing by Justin Miller On December 23, 2009, a federal appeals court upheld the convictions of disbarred defense attorney Lynne Stewart and criticized what it called a “strikingly low sentence” for her offenses, which were …
Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010
Closed Door Justice: Court Seeks Disbarment of Attorney in Secret by Brandon Sample The story of Herbert Moncier, a prominent attorney in Knoxville, Tennessee, seems foreign, as if it were from another time and place. In fact, it is almost Gestapo-like. Moncier’s problems began on November 17, 2006 during a …
The Maricopa Courthouse WAR by Terry Carter Posted Apr 1, 2010 4:45 AM CDT On Dec. 21, in the afternoon sunshine that passes for winter in Phoenix, several hundred well-dressed protesters—most of them lawyers—gathered on the Maricopa County courthouse plaza. Summoned by an e-mail from a local lawyer, they brought …
$2.1 Million Awarded in New York Unjust Conviction Claim by On March 16, 2009, a New York Court of Claims awarded $2,093,420 in damages to a man who was wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting his 4-year-old child. He had spent more than two years in a maximum-security prison. During “an …
Federal Court Holds Enemy Combatant Detainee May Sue Government Officials by On June 12, 2009, a federal district court in California ruled that a U.S. citizen detained in the U.S. as an enemy combatant could sue a high-ranking federal official who promulgated legal opinions on policies that led to the …
$250,000 Default Judgment in Federal Court Legal Malpractice Case by On July 22, 2008, a New York federal court entered judgment and an award of $250,000 to the estate and survivors of a man who had allegedly been abused during 25 days of drug rehab. The award was against a …
Pennsylvania Private Juvenile Prison Scandal Results in Guilty Pleas by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 9, 2009, attorney Robert J. Powell of Hazeltown, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to charges related to an illegal scheme involving two for-profit juvenile facilities – PA Child Care in Luzerne County and Western PA …
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