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California Female Prisoners Eligible for Early Release, but Disqualified Due to Lack of Local Rehabilitative Services by In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Plata v. Brown, mandating that California take immediate steps to reduce prison overcrowding, state officials have proposed innovative ideas to help accomplish that …
Article • October 15, 2012 • from PLN October, 2012
California Federal Judge Denies Habeas Petitions after Sitting on Them for Years by A federal judge’s treatment of prisoner habeas petitions gives new meaning to the old adage that justice delayed is justice denied. U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson, who was named to the federal judiciary in 2002 by …
Texas Compensates Exonerees Unequally by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A succession of laws, cumulating in the most generous compensation package for wrongly convicted prisoners in the nation, has left Texas exonerees stuck at different levels of compensation depending on when they were proven innocent. Consequently, some earlier exonerees now …
Brief • October 12, 2012
Galarza v. Szalczyk, PA, Settlement - Allentown, ICE Detention US Citizen, 2012 JOINT TORTFEASOR RELEASE AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESElNTS, that the undersigned, ERNESTO GALARZA (hereinafter "RELEASqR") intending to be legally bound, for and in consideration of the full sum of T1"'ENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,000.00) …
Habeas Hints: 2012 Supreme Court Habeas Highlights: Plea Bargaining Cases by Kent A. Russell by Kent Russell This column provides “habeas hints” to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (“in pro per”). The focus of the column is on “AEDPA” (Antiterrorism and Effective …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Ventura County, California Settles Wrongful Arrest Class-action Suit for $350,000 by In September 2011, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office (VCSO) agreed to settle a class-action civil rights lawsuit alleging that innocent people had been jailed when VCSO officials failed and/or refused to use readily available technological means (such as fingerprint …
Iowa SOTP Requirement Does Not Violate Fifth Amendment by The Iowa Supreme Court has held that prison officials do not violate the Fifth Amendment by depriving convicted sex offenders of earned-time sentence reductions when they refuse to participate in a sex offender treatment program (SOTP) that requires them to admit …
$2.3 Million Jury Award in Washington, D.C. Wrongful Parole Revocation Suit by A District of Columbia (D.C.) federal jury has awarded $2.3 million to a former prisoner who spent ten years in prison after his parole was wrongfully revoked based on unreliable hearsay evidence. Charles Singletary was convicted of robbery, …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Onerous Change in Michigan Commutation Procedures Fails to State Ex Post Facto Claim by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a change in procedures for commutation of sentence does not constitute an ex post facto violation. The appellate court ruled in a case involving Michigan prisoner Keith …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Idaho Appellate Defender: State’s Adult Misdemeanor Probation System “Void” by A memo authored by Sara B. Thomas, chief of the Idaho State Appellate Defender’s appellate unit, has concluded that the state’s adult misdemeanor probation system is unconstitutional, calling it “null, void and unenforceable.” According to the August 15, 2011 memo, …
Brief • September 6, 2012
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment
Jones v. City of St. Louis, MO, Complaint, Mistaken Identity, 2012 Case: 4:12-cv-01220-ERW Doc. #: 27 Filed: 09/06/12 Page: 1 of 18 PageID #: 204 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION TRAVIS JONES, Plaintiff v. CITY OF ST. LOUIS Serve: Francis Slay, Jr. 1200 …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Georgia Court Clerk Liable for Failure to Inform Prison Officials of Sentence Reduction by The Georgia Supreme Court has held that a court clerk is not entitled to official immunity in a lawsuit claiming negligent performance of a ministerial duty. At the heart of the case was the clerk’s failure …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
California Supreme Court Restricts Lifer Parole Challenges by In its second review in three years of a state prisoner’s habeas corpus petition seeking review of an adverse parole decision, on December 29, 2011 the California Supreme Court again reversed the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Div. 1, which had ordered …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Termination from Drug Treatment Program Fails to State Liberty Interest Claim by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the decision of prison officials to remove a prisoner from a drug treatment program, which made him ineligible for a probated sentence, was insufficient to confer a liberty interest …
Ninth Circuit Holds BOP Individual RDAP Determinations Not Subject to Judicial Review by Individualized decisions related to the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) are not subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
No Good Time for Time Spent in State Custody before Imposition of Federal Sentence by Good conduct time (GCT) may not be awarded to a federal prisoner for time spent in state custody before receiving his federal sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held. Russell …
Brief • August 15, 2012
Allen v. Heyns, MI, Complaint, Class Action, Parolable Life Sentences, 2012 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 Draganchuk DANIEL HEYNS, Director of …
Brief • July 18, 2012
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Hampton v. City of Chicago, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2012 Case: 1:12-cv-05650 Document #: 1 Filed: 07/18/12 Page 1 of 19 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION PATRICK HAMPTON, Plaintiff, vs. CITY OF CHICAGO, Former Chicago Police Detective MICHAEL DUFFIN, Former Chicago …
Article • July 15, 2012
Supreme Court Considers Oklahoma Punitive Sterilization Issue by The U.S. Supreme Court reversed in June, 1942, an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling upholding punitive sterilization of a state prisoner. Petitioner Skinner was convicted in 1926 of the crime of stealing chickens and sent to prison. In 1929 and 1934 he was …
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow by James Forman, Jr. by James Forman, Jr.* In the last decade, a number of scholars have called the American criminal justice system a new form of Jim Crow. These writers have effectively drawn attention to the injustices created by …
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