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8th Circuit: Qualified Immunity Denied to Nebraska Investigative Team Which Manufactured False Evidence to Secure Murder Conviction of Innocent Party by In October 2012, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to a team of investigators accused of conspiring to manufacture false evidence and procuring …
Article • August 15, 2013
Third Circuit Vacates Lifetime Computer/Internet Ban by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated sex offender special conditions of supervised release because they were not narrowly tailored or consistent with the factors of 18 USC § 3553(a). Pennsylvania resident Daniel Voelker engaged in an online “chat” with Wyndell Williams. During …
Article • August 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
Washington DOC Can’t Impose 5 Years Flat Time for All 1st Degree Assault Convictions with Deadly Weapons Enhancements by The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that the State Department of Corrections (DOC) can’t require prisoners to serve the first five years of a 1st degree assault sentence as “flat …
Brief • August 9, 2013
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Wilcoxson v. Buncombe Co, NC, Complaint, wrongful conviction, 2015 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE DIVISION CASE NO.____________ ROBERT WILCOXSON, Plaintiff vs. BUNCOMBE COUNTY, BOBBY MEDFORD, in his individual and official capacities, SAM CONSTANCE, in his individual capacity, GEORGE SPRINKLE, in his …
Brief • August 5, 2013
Wilson v. Winges-Yanez, OR, Ptfs Resp. to MTD, Sex Offender Parole Conditions, 2013 Case 3:13-cv-00740-KI Document 28 Filed 08/05/13 Page 1 of 13 Page ID#: 170 Lynn S. Walsh, OSB #92495 email: walsh@europa.com 209 SW Oak Street Suite 400 Portland, Oregon 97204 Telephone: 503-790-2772 Facsimile: 503-227-6840 Attorney for Plaintiff UNITED …
Brief • August 5, 2013
Wilson v. Winges-Yanez, OR, Reply to Resp. to Mtn. for PI, 2013 Case 3:13-cv-00740-KI Document 29 Filed 08/05/13 Page 1 of 8 Page ID#: 183 Lynn S. Walsh, OSB #92495 email: walsh@europa.com 209 SW Oak Street Suite 400 Portland, Oregon 97204 Telephone: 503-790-2772 Facsimile: 503-227-6840 Attorney for Plaintiff UNITED STATES …
Publication • August 1, 2013
Reconsidering Early Release Georgetown J. of Law and Pub. Policy 2013 ARTICLES Clemency, Parole, Good-Time Credits, and Crowded Prisons Reconsidering Early Release PAUL J. LARKIN, JR.* INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
Brief • July 26, 2013
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Fields v. Wharrie, IL, Appeals Brief, Wrongful Conviction, 2013 Case: 13-1195 Document: 17 Filed: 07/26/2013 Pages: 28 NO. 13-1195 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT _____________________________________________________ NATHSON FIELDS, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. LARRY WHARRIE AND DAVID KELLEY, Defendants-Appellants. _____________________________________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for …
Brief • July 22, 2013
Allen v. Heyns, MI, Motion and Brief for Summary Disposition, Class Action, Parolable Life Sentences, 2013 STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE 30TH (INGHAM COUNTY) CIRCUIT COURT ______________________________________________ EDWARD ALLEN, OLIVER HARDY, and MICHAEL WATKINS, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, File No. 12-907-CZ v. Hon. Joyce …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Former Maryland Governor Acknowledges Politics Behind Life Means Life Policy by Parris Glendening, who served as Maryland's governor from 1995 through 2002, has acknowledged, around a decade later, the role that politics played in his adoption of a "life means life" policy that effectively ended early release for prisoners sentenced …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Filed under: Escapes, Sentencing
Oregon: Post-Escape Conduct Justifies Enhanced Escape Sentence by The Oregon Court of Appeals has held that criminal conduct committed after an escape justifies the imposition of an enhanced sentence on the escape conviction. Donald A. Bennett was an Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) prisoner when he escaped from the South …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Louisiana Supreme Court Rejects Ex Post Facto Challenge in Sex Offender Supervision Case by Derek Gilna The Louisiana Supreme Court has reversed the judgment of a state appellate court and reinstated the "lifelong supervision" of Rudy Trosclair, who had contested that condition on ex post facto grounds. At the time …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Tenth Circuit: No Section 2241 Jurisdiction for BOP Supermax Challenge; Claims Must be Brought as Bivens Action by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held on May 1, 2012 that a federal prisoner's transfer to supermax custody must be brought as a Bivens action rather than as a federal habeas …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Arkansas: Sentencing Court Cannot Order Prison Treatment by The Arkansas Supreme Court has held that a sentencing court lacks authority to order a defendant to complete sex offender treatment in prison. In 2011, Chad Lee White was convicted of rape and second-degree battery for anally penetrating a neighbor's two-year-old son …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Seventeen Years Pending Re-trial Fails to State Speedy Trial Violation under § 1983 by Seventeen Years Pending Re-trial Fails to State Speedy Trial Violation under § 1983 The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a pretrial detainee did not suffer a violation of his Sixth Amendment right to …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Filed under: Probation, Juveniles
California: Probation Condition Cannot Prohibit Court Access by The California Court of Appeal has held that a condition of probation barring a juvenile offender's access to the courthouse was unconstitutionally overbroad in violation of the First Amendment. In 2010, California juvenile offender Jose N. was made a ward of the …
California Guard Fights Prisoner, Faces Charges for Falsifying Reports by A California prison guard who challenged a prisoner to a fight, then engaged in a cover-up to avoid getting in trouble, is now facing criminal charges for filing false reports. In April 2012, state prison guard Christopher Cruse, 41, pleaded …
Arizona Prison System Plagued by Politics, Privatization and Prisoner Deaths by Joe Watson By the time Jan Brewer replaced Janet Napolitano as Arizona’s governor in 2009, it had been 22 years since the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) built the first prison in the United States designed exclusively for permanent …
Article • July 13, 2013
Newest Texas Criminal Justice Lobbyist is Powerful Texas Business Group by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The most powerful business group in Texas, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB) has announced its intention to influence the future course of criminal justice reform in Texas. TAB president Bill Hammond said TAB …
Brief • July 3, 2013
Ali v. Taylor, 10th Cir, Order and Judgment, appeals segregation good time credit, 2013
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