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Deliberate Indifference Among Claims Surviving Dismissal in Detainee’s Death by A federal court granted in part and denied in part three Motions for Summary Judgment from a prison health care provider, a sheriff, and guards, concerning a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the wife of a pretrial detainee. The U.S. …
Article • August 15, 2013
Florida Prisons End Religious Diet Accommodation by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has ended a four-year-long program that provided Jewish and Muslim prisoners with meals that satisfy their religious requirements. Originally, the program was aimed solely at Jewish prisoners. Costs and fairness were cited as the factors to end …
Article • August 15, 2013
Florida Sheriff’s Moonlighting Activities Under Investigation by Federal prosecutors are investigating if Florida’s Broward County Sheriff, Ken Jenne, has defrauded the public under the “honest services mail and wire fraud” sections of federal law. The probe began with subpoenas for Jenne’s bank records and those of other Broward County Sheriff’s …
Article • August 15, 2013
$5,001 Paid for Failing to Protect Florida Prisoner by While held at Florida’s Martin Correctional Institution in January 1992, the plaintiff prisoner was attacked by two prisoners, sustaining serious stab wounds to the head, face, shoulders, as well as multiple minor injuries, along with a broken dental plate. Plaintiff alleged …
Article • August 15, 2013
A Federal Prisoner Found Guilty of Making False Statements by A federal jury convicted a prisoner of making false statements against guards at a federal prison in Florida. A jury in the U.S. District Court in Miami, Florida, convicted Dalin Pico Rodriguez under Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1001 of two …
Article • August 15, 2013
Attorney’s Fees Not Automatic Under Florida Rule 1.380 by Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals has held that a defendant is not entitled to attorney’s fees for a plaintiff’s refusal to admit the central issue of fact in a civil case. Before the Court was the appeal of Walter Shaw …
Article • August 15, 2013
Florida’s Prison Bond Scheme Obscures Real Costs of Expansion by The issuance of lease revenue bonds to finance “the costs of prison construction has obscured both the near- and long-term costs of failing to make needed policy changes.” That is the main conclusion drawn in A Billion Dollars and Growing: …
Brief • August 7, 2013
Hernandez v. United States, FL, Settlement, Misdiagnosis Causes Permanent Disability, 2013 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA OCALA DIVISION ROBERT LEE HERNANDEZ, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 5: 11-CV-00370-MSS-PRL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant. --------------------~' STIPULATION FOR COMPROMISE SETTLEMENT AND RELEASE OF FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT CLAIMS PURSUANT TO …
Brief • August 6, 2013
Hollis v. City of Key West, FL, New Trial Motion, Police Excessive Force, 2013 Case 4:12-cv-10013-KMM Document 79 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/06/2013 Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA KEY WEST DIVISION SUZANN HOLLIS, Plaintiffs, v. Case No.: 12-10013-CIV-MOORE/TORRES CITY …
Graves v. USA, FL, Complaint, unlawful vehicle stop police wrongful death shooting - McNeil, 2013 Case 1:13-cv-22501-KMM Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/12/2013 Page 1 of 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Miami Division SHANIKA A. GRAVES, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Travis McNeil, …
Collins v. Campbell, et al., FL, complaint, medical, 2013
Florida Proceeds with Privatization of Prison Medical Care by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is moving forward with a legislative mandate to privatize its entire medical system. Whether the plan is implemented, however, may depend on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by prison health care workers challenging the …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
CCA Pays $100,000 after Exiting Contract to Operate Florida Jail by A mediation agreement between Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and Hernando County, Florida has resolved a dispute over $1.86 million after CCA and the county ended their contract for operation of the Hernando County Detention Center (HCDC), which CCA …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Florida Legislator Resigns in Wake of Texting Scandal by A Florida state lawmaker who supported harsher criminal penalties for stalkers and people who commit sexual offenses using electronic means has resigned in the wake of a texting scandal. In August and September 2011, Democratic state representative Richard L. Steinberg used …
Publication • 2013
Innocent Defendant's Delimma-Plea Bargining, J of Crim Law & Criminology, 2013 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Volume 103 | Issue 1 Article 1 Winter 2013 The Innocent Defendant's Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining's Innocence Problem Lucian E. Dervan Vanessa A. Edkins Ph.D. Follow this and additional …
Article • May 15, 2013
Florida Supreme Court Bars Repetitious Prison Litigant by The Florida Supreme Court imposed sanction on a state prisoner for repeatedly filing meritless legal petitions with both the First District Court of Appeals and the Florida Supreme Court. Shernerd Richardson was serving his sentence for a sex offense when he appealed …
Brief • May 13, 2013
Christie v. Scott, FL, Settlement, Jail Pepper Spray Death, 2013
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Florida Innocence Commission Makes Recommendations to Prevent Wrongful Convictions by The Florida Innocence Commission's final report, presented to the Florida Supreme Court on June 25, 2012, included a number of recommendations to address issues related to wrongful convictions in the Sunshine State. Due to having one of the highest rates …
US District Court Denies Fla. DOC Wrongful Death Defense by The United States District Court for the Middle District in Ocala denied in September 2012 the Florida Department of Corrections’ dispositive motion in the First Amendment claims of Lynn Wolfe, Plaintiff and mother of deceased DOC prisoner, Daniel Wolfe. Plaintiff …
Article • April 15, 2013
Florida Supreme Court Affirms Prisoner’s Death Sentence by The Supreme Court of Florida affirmed in February 2012 the circuit court’s denial of post-conviction relief in the death sentence of William Van Poyck. Appellant Van Poyck filed in 2007 a motion alleging his non-triggerman status as being of sufficient weight to …
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