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Article • April 15, 2013
Maryland Prisoner Challenges State Indecent Exposure Laws by A divided Maryland Supreme Court affirmed in May 2012 the holding of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County in a case wherein a Maryland state prisoner sought to establish that enacted indecent exposure legislation intended for circumstances found in a prison setting …
Article • April 15, 2013
Sixth Circuit of US Court of Appeals Affirms Grant of Habeas Corpus by The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed in May 2012 the order of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan conditionally granting the petition for habeas corpus relief in the …
Article • April 15, 2013
Statute of Limitations Kills Oregon False Imprisonment Suit by The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the statute of limitations dismissal of a former prisoner's false imprisonment suit. In three separate judgments, Loren MacNab was convicted of four counts of failing to register as a sex offender and sentenced to jail …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing
Oregon Prison Assault Brings Attempted Murder Charge by An Oregon prisoner faces attempted murder charges and at least 10 more years in prison for brutally assaulting another prisoner at an intake facility in December 2011. While at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility's (CCCF) Intake Center in December 2011, prisoner James …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Denial of Washington Misdemeanor Electronic Monitoring Credit Upheld by The Washington State Court of Appeals held that refusing to grant misdemeanor offenders credit for electronic home monitoring, while granting such credit to felons does not deprive misdemeanants of equal protection or due process of law. The court also held that …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
California Court of Appeals Affirms Grant of Parole by The Fourth District Court of Appeals for the State of California affirmed in May 2012 the grant of a writ of habeas corpus filed by prisoner William Jon Pugh contesting the governor’s reversal of a grant of parole. Pugh was convicted …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
California Court of Appeal Grants Increased Award of Conduct Credit to Jail Detainee by The California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, has held that an amendment to Penal Code section 4019, which increased the amount of presentence conduct credit to which a jail detainee is entitled, operates to the …
Article • April 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Non-Sentencing Court Cannot Adjust Sentence on Habeas by On November 15, 2011, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a New Mexico federal district court’s order dismissing a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 that sought to adjust a sentence imposed by a California federal district court. The New …
Who Polices Prosecutors Who Abuse Their Authority? Usually Nobody by Joaquin Sapien by Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, and Sergio Hernandez, Special to ProPublica The murder case against Tony Bennett seemed pretty straightforward. Shortly before midnight on May 7, 1994, police found a 26-year-old man in the foyer of an apartment building …
Lasting Damage: A Rogue Prosecutor’s Final Case by Joaquin Sapien ProPublica Among the thousands of prosecutors who have tried cases in the name of the people of New York City, Claude Stuart came to hold a handful of unfortunate distinctions: • He was a serial abuser of his authority. State …
Article • March 15, 2013
Wisconsin Prisoner's Pro-Se AEDPA Action Dismissed, Reversed and Remanded by Derek Gilna The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin's denial of a pro-se application for a writ of habeas corpus by prisoner Stanley E. Martin, Jr., was reversed and remanded by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals …
Article • March 15, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Prisoner's Habeas Petition Challenging Calculation of Sentence by Derek Gilna Prisoner Isaac Leigh Hunter appealed from the district court's denial of his application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Hunter was seeking relief from a decision of the …
Article • March 15, 2013
New Hampshire Supreme Court Affirms Order of Superior Court Denying His Motion to Amend the Conditions of His Suspended Sentence by Derek Gilna In an opinion issued on September 17, 2010, the State Supreme Court in New Hampshire upheld the Superior Court's denial of defendant Jonathan A. Perfetto's motion to …
Article • March 15, 2013
Gang Colors Restriction Held Unconstitutional by Brandon Sample The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has vacated a special condition of supervised release barring the "wearing of colors, insignia, or obtaining tattoos or burn marks (including branding and scars) relative to" criminal street gangs. The court held that …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
California Governor Approved Parole for 377 Life-Sentenced Murderers in 2012 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Last year, California Governor Jerry Brown approved four out of every five parole grant decisions by the Board of Parole Hearings (Board) for prisoners convicted of murder and sentenced to life with parole. …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Eighth Circuit Upholds Child Porn Supervised Release Condition by On May 7, 2012, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a supervised release condition imposed on a federal prisoner convicted of a non-sex offense that prohibited possession of child pornography or photographic depictions of child nudity. A Nebraska federal court …
Life On the List by A single mistake when he was 12 landed Josh Gravens on Texas’ sex offender list. He’s been paying for it ever since. by Emily DePrang Published on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 2:52 CST When Josh Gravens was 12 years old, he made a terrible …
Article • March 15, 2013
Participation in Reentry Programming Leads Ex-Offenders Back to Prison, Study Says by The results of a three-year study by researchers at the University of Kansas will likely make prisoners more skittish of reentry programming than many already are. A report from KU's School of Social Welfare, first published in August …
Prison Reforms Under Maine’s New DOC Commissioner by Lance Tapley Several weeks after firing Maine State Prison warden Patricia Barnhart on January 10, 2013, and two years after taking over the Department of Corrections (DOC), Commissioner Joseph Ponte appears determined to continue – and ramp up – his forceful program …
U.S. Citizens Mistakenly Snared, Deported by DHS and ICE by Derek Gilna An increasing number of American citizens have been questioned, detained and even deported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as a result of databases that incorrectly identify them as undocumented …
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