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Holder to Federal Prosecutors: Stop Using Threat of 851 Enhancements to Coerce Pleas by Derek Gilna Apparently U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s impending retirement from government service has not extinguished his desire to rein in over-zealous federal prosecutors.  In a September 24, 2014 memo to federal prosecutors made public, Holder …
Texas Man Exonerated By DNA Test He Didn't Request by Matthew Clarke A Texas man, Michael Phillips, 57, recently became the first person to be cleared of a crime by DNA testing he did not request. Phillips was accused of raping a white teenage girl at a Dallas motel in …
Article • August 10, 2016
U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. Creates Unit to Investigate Flawed Convictions by Derek Gilna The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia has set up the first federal unit nationwide unit to internally identify, investigate, and possible wrongful convictions, U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen Jr. said.  “This new unit will …
Article • August 9, 2016
California Cop Destroys Jail Suicide Evidence, Gets Probation by Something snapped in Dean Gochenour's fragile mind before he hanged himself in a jail cell in Fullerton, California, nearly two years ago. Just hours later, the man who arrested him that night snapped, too, smashing the device that recorded one of …
Man Nearly Executed, Awarded $14M after Exoneration by A former death row inmate who came within weeks of being executed was awarded $14 million by a federal jury in New Orleans after being cleared of his murder conviction. John Thompson, 40, spent 18 years in prison after being convicted of …
Federal Jury Awards $9 Million to Illinois Man Cleared of Rape He Was Convicted of as Teenager by Alejandro Dominguez, who spent four years in prison for a rape he did not commit, was awarded $9 million by a federal jury after DNA evidence cleared him of the charges. Dominguez, …
Article • August 5, 2016
Philadelphia Man Awarded $65,000 in Police Assault by A Philadelphia state court jury awarded $65,000 to a man after finding two police officers liable for assault and battery and malicious prosecution. At issue was the April 2, 2013, arrest of Phillip Easley, 30, who walked to a store and offered …
HRDC Represents Former Illinois Prisoner in Wrongful Conviction Suit by Derek Gilna Over the years, Prison Legal News and its parent non-profit organization, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), have filed dozens of censorship lawsuits against state prison systems and county jails, as well as numerous public records suits. [See: …
Tenth Circuit Finds Compelled, Incriminating Sex Offender Polygraphs Unconstitutional by Christopher Zoukis In May 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that sex offenders released from custody cannot be compelled to answer potentially incriminating polygraph questions as a condition of their supervised release. The ruling came …
$7,000 Settlement after Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of New York Prisoner’s Suit by Derek Gilna In 2007, prisoner Aaron Willey filed a pro se federal civil rights lawsuit against guards employed by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, alleging harassment, inadequate nutrition, theft of legal documents, …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
The Mirage of Justice by by Chris Hedges, Truthdig If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial – instead you will be forced to accept a plea deal offered by government prosecutors. If you are poor, the word of the police, who are not averse to fabricating or …
Discriminatory Firing of BOP Results in Jury Verdict, Settlement of $280,000 by A California federal jury found the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) liable for discrimination against a former investigative lieutenant.  The parties eventually settled the matter for $280,000. Isaac A. Asberry, a black male, worked for over 17 years at …
Article • July 29, 2016
New York Man Falsely Charged with Crimes Awarded $560,000 by A New York federal jury awarded $560,000 in compensatory and punitive damages against police officers in a civil rights action brought by a man who had previously been acquitted of drug and firearm charges.  The second Circuit Court of Appeals …
Article • July 29, 2016
Michigan Man Convicted on Faulty Bite Evidence Receives $1.5 Million by A $1.5 million settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought by a Michigan man who spent 13 years in prison for a rape charge based on faulty bite mark evidence. Two weeks before the case was set to proceed …
Publication • July 26, 2016
How to Win Prison Disciplinary Hearings, Parmelee, 1996 The Only SelfDefense Manual for Sate & ederal Prisoners Ofli ing P oven Methods That Wor By e Dear Readers: I am sure you may "be noticing some content and fonnat changes in this manual compared to others previously shipped. The reason …
Brief • July 14, 2016
Tchatat v. City of New York, NY, Opinion and Order, Expert Testimony, 2016 Case 1:14-cv-02385-LGS-GWG Document 292 Filed 08/01/16 Page 1 of 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------X JOSIAS TCHATAT, : : Plaintiff, OPINION AND ORDER 14 Civ. 2385 (LGS) (GWG) : -v.: CITY OF …
America's Top Five Deadliest Prosecutors - How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty, Fair Punishment Project, 2015 FAIR PUNISHMENT PROJECT AMERICA’S TOP FIVE DEADLIEST PROSECUTORS: How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty JUNE 2016 Last year, a journalist asked Dale Cox, then the District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, about …
Dallas Conviction Integrity Unit Gains National Notoriety by Matthew Clarke The word “first” was applied to Craig M. Watkins multiple times after his election to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in 2006. He was the county’s first black D.A., the first D.A. who had been a public defender before …
Connecticut Prisoner Wins Motion for Sanctions over Destruction of Evidence; Case Settles for $40,000 by Derek Gilna Connecticut state prisoner Tye Thomas won an important pretrial motion that found employees of the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) were “grossly negligent” in failing to preserve key video surveillance footage of assaults …
Article • July 1, 2016
If You're Poor, Justice in America Doesn't Look the Same by Being poor has become a crime. And this makes mass incarceration the most pressing civil rights issue of our era. By Chris Hedges / Truthdig If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial—instead you will be forced to accept …
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