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Article • September 15, 2026 • from PLN October, 2025
Indiana Supreme Court Announces Whether Defendant’s Actions Were “Objectively Reasonable” Justifying Self-Defense Can Be Considered in Hindsight by Sagi Schwartzberg by Sagi Schwartzberg In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Indiana held that the state’s self-defense statute justifies the use of force necessary for self-protection, even if …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
With HRDC Amicus Brief, Survivor of Dead Washington Prisoner Wins Public Records Case by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford On April 11, 2024, the Supreme Court of Washington held that the one-year statute of limitations (SOL) for bringing a lawsuit under the state Public Records Act (PRA), RCW 42.56.001, et …
Washington Court of Appeals: No Reimbursement for Community Service Performed for Vacated Conviction by In a pair of cases decided in October 2024, the Court of Appeals of Washington held that defendants are not entitled to reimbursement for community service work that they performed in lieu of paying cash to …
SCOTUS Stays Texas Execution With 20 Minutes to Spare by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After granting a rare stay of execution minutes before a condemned Texas prisoner’s date with death, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) agreed on October 4, 2024, to hear his challenge to a …
Federal Watchdog, SCOTUS Fail to Limit Solitary Confinement Abuses by Douglas Ankney, Anthony Accurso by Douglas Ankney and Anthony W. Accurso Prisoners have lost two chances to rein in abuses of solitary confinement in the past year, most recently with a toothless advisory from the Office of the Inspector General …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Intellectually Disabled Georgia Prisoner Executed After SCOTUS Denies Appeal by Georgia executed Willie Pye, 59, on March 20, 2024, despite last-­minute appeals questioning his mental competency and the adequacy of his legal representation. The execution sharpened debate over capital punishment in the treatment of intellectually disabled prisoners. Pye was convicted …
His Appeal Lost for 28 Years, Texas Prisoner Finally Off Death Row by When sentenced to Texas’ death row in 1988 for a murder committed the year before, Syed Rabbani was a healthy 23-year-old. Now 57, he is psychotic and blind, left almost entirely unable to move or speak by …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Ohio Supreme Court Orders Records Produced for State Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 7, 2023, the Supreme Court of Ohio rebuffed a request from the office of state Attorney General Dave Yost (R) to reconsider a grant of a state prisoner’s mandamus action. That left …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
BOP Hits Back Hard After Federal Prisoner in Arizona Brandishes Gun by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart As of mid-January 2023, almost 100 minimum-security prisoners from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Tucson were still being held in segregation at the nearby U.S. Penitentiary (USP) in Tucson, six weeks after …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Florida Supreme Court: Trial Courts Have Authority to Correct Sentencing Errors, But Subject to Time Limits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 16, 2022, the Supreme Court of Florida held that a trial court has authority to make corrections to sentence credits for jail and prison time …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty, Stays
Condemned Alabama Prisoner Now Spared Twice by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman When his death warrant expired at 12:01 a.m. on September 23, 2022, condemned Alabama prisoner Alan Eugene Miller was still alive, capping a wild few days during which his execution was stayed by a federal judge and then …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Third Circuit Holds Consent of All Parties to Magistrate Judge Jurisdiction Required Before Judgment Against Pennsylvania Prisoners by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On February 10, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of two Pennsylvania prisoners’ federal civil rights claims because …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Florida Supreme Court Reinstates Prisoner’s Appeal That Was Dismissed for Lack of Prison Date Stamp by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 4, 2022, the Supreme Court of Florida held that the state’s First District Court of Appeal erred in not accepting a prisoner’s notice of appeal for …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
California Appellate Court Reverses $2.7 Million Award for Wrongful Death of Woman Murdered by Grandson on Parole by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett In a stunning decision reached on December 16, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Third Appellate District, absolved the state Department of Corrections …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Sixth Circuit Revives Tennessee Detainee’s Suit, Holds Lower Court Not Required to Retain Jurisdiction of State Law Claims After Dismissing Federal Claims by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 22, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit extended the life of civil rights claims brought under …
HRDC Appeals Denial of Public Records Request for Documentation of Secret Settlement in Maine Jail Prisoner’s Excessive Force Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 6, 2021, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), publisher of Prison Legal News and Criminal Legal News, filed an appeal in Maine state …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Ohio Supreme Court Orders Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to Revise Calculation of Prisoner’s Sentence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio granted a state prisoner’s petition for a writ of mandamus and ordered the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) …
Filing • December 2, 2020
Hoever v. Carraway, Correctional Officer, et al., FL, Motion with attached Amici Curiae Brief, 2020 USCA11 Case: 17-10792 Date (1 ofFiled: 40) 12/02/2020 Page: 1 of 12 No. 17-10792 In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit CONRAAD L. HOEVER, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross Appellant, v. C. CARRAWAY, Correctional Officer, …
Brief • December 2, 2020
Hoever v. Carraway, Correctional Officer, et al., FL, Motion with attached Amici Curiae Brief, 2020 USCA11 Case: 17-10792 Date (1 ofFiled: 40) 12/02/2020 Page: 1 of 12 No. 17-10792 In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit CONRAAD L. HOEVER, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross Appellant, v. C. CARRAWAY, Correctional Officer, …
Brief • October 1, 2019
Humphrey v. Stored Value Cards, Motion, Attorney Fees, 2019 Case: 1:18-cv-01050-JG Doc #: 99 Filed: 10/01/19 1 of 2. PageID #: 1593 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION AMBER HUMPHREY, On behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, CASE NO. 1:18-CV-01050 vs. UNITED STATES …
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