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News in Brief by Alabama: Kadarius Shermaine Todd, 28, a new guard still on probationary status at the Madison County Jail, was fired on April 4, 2025, after allegedly attempting to smuggle contraband into the lockup. He was apprehended upon arrival to meet a contact with a package containing Suboxone, …
Texas Courts, Legislature at Odds over Executing Potentially Innocent Death Row Prisoner by Robert L. Roberson III was sentenced to death in Texas in 2003 for killing his two-year-old daughter, Nikki, whose death the previous year was attributed to “shaken baby syndrome.” Since then research has found symptoms attributed to …
Missouri DOC Chief Held in Contempt of Court for Keeping Exonerated Prisoner Locked Up by On August 7, 2024, the head of Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) was held in contempt by a state court judge for refusing to release Howard Roberts, 82, after the prisoner’s conviction was overturned. State …
Wrongfully Imprisoned for 26 Years, Chicago Brothers Sue Cop Who Framed Them by A year after their murder convictions were tossed and they were freed from an Illinois prison where they’d spent 26 years, a pair of brothers got a certificate of innocence from a state court on May 31, …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Virginia Prisoner Wins Habeas Release on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney There was good news and bad news for former Virginia prisoner Jeramiah Chamberlain on December 22, 2021. That’s when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed dismissal of his suit …
Wrongly Imprisoned for Killing Oregon Prison Director, Frank Gable Finally Fully Freed by On May 12, 2023, the federal court for the District of Oregon dismissed the murder indictment against Frank Gable, who was wrongfully imprisoned nearly 30 years for the 1989 slaying of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) …
$1.85 Million Approved for Tampa Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for 37 Years by Robert DuBoise received the second most important call of his life on June 9, 2023, when a Tallahassee public policy firm phoned to let him know that the efforts to obtain $1.85 million in compensation for the 37 …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Bad Lawyering, Bankruptcy Torpedo Suit Over Delaware Prisoner’s Death by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins After a long run of bad news,formerDelaware prison health care contractor Connections Community Support Programs (CCSP) caught a break when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit involving a prisoner’s withdrawal death after a CCSP nurse …
Ninth Circuit Upholds Order Vacating Conviction in Oregon Prison Director’s 1989 Murder; SCOTUS Declines Review by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 29, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court’s decision to toss the murder conviction of Frank Gable, now 62, in …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
SCOTUS Kneecaps Condemned Prisoners Claiming Ineffective Assistance of Counsel by Benjamin Tschirhart by Ben Tschirhart Ten years ago, in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), the U.S. Supreme Court confronted a dilemma posed by Congress’ passage of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996. That law …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Wrongfully Convicted Man Freed for Murder of Oregon DOC Director, But State Wants Him Back In Prison by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson "The State can no longer afford to manufacture a case built on lies and half-truths,” wrote Patrick and Kevin Francke in their letter to a federal judge …
Minnesota Man Out of Prison After Being Exonerated of Murder by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Javon Davis, aka James Lamar Davis, was talking to his girlfriend on the phone during the wee hours of April 12, 2014 as two men were gunned down while leaving their workplace at Target …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Innocence Project Working to Prove Arkansas Executed Innocent Man by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On January 23, 2020, the family of an Arkansas man who was executed three years earlier, filed a lawsuit to obtain evidence from the scene of the murder for which he was convicted, hoping to …
Iowa v. Lopez, IA, Appeal, Ineffective Counsel 2018 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWA No. 16–1213 Filed February 2, 2018 STATE OF IOWA, Appellee, vs. JOSE WILLFREDO LOPEZ, Appellant. Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Buchanan County, Linda M. Fangman, Judge. A criminal defendant appeals his conviction for indecent …
People v. Henderson, IL, Opinion, Reversible Errors, 2017 3/14/2018 PEOPLE v. HENDERSON | FindLaw Not a Legal Professional? Visit our consumer site Register | Login CASES & CODES PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JOBS & CAREERS NEWSLETTERS Lawyer Marketing Corporate Counsel Forms FindLaw Caselaw Illinois IL Ct. App. BLOGS LAW TECHNOLOGY Law Students …
Commonwealth v. Morin, MA, Appeal, Ineffective Counsel, 2017 NOTICE: All slip opinions and orders are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme …
State of Montana v. Hansen, MO, Appeal Brief, Sexual Assault, 2017 11/14/2017 DA 16-0194 Case Number: DA 16-0194 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA 2017 MT 280 STATE OF MONTANA, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. GARY HANSEN, Defendant and Appellant. APPEAL FROM: District Court of the Eighth Judicial …
The People v. Watts, CA, Appeal Brief, Murder, 2017 Filed 11/14/17 CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION* IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION ONE THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, B270324 (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. TA129035) v. BOBBY WATTS, Defendant and Appellant. APPEAL …
Lebis v. State of Georgia, GA, Appeal Brief, Wrongful Death by Shooting, 2017 In the Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: October 31, 2017 S17A0948. LEBIS v. THE STATE. GRANT, Justice. Following a jury trial, Lisa Ann Lebis appeals her convictions of felony murder and other crimes related to the shooting …
Brown v. State of Georgia, GA, Appeal Brief, Wrongful Death by Shooting, 2017 In the Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: October 30, 2017 S17A1141. BROWN v. THE STATE. NAHMIAS, Justice. Appellant Ahmad Edward Brown challenges his convictions for malice murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of …
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