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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, …
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 …
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 • 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 • 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 • 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 …
State of Minnesota v. Luby, MN, Appeal Brief, Murder Conviction, 2017 STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT A16-1213 Dakota County McKeig, J. Dissenting, Chutich, J., Gildea, C.J. State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Filed: December 6, 2017 Office of Appellate Courts Thomas Michael Luby, Appellant. ________________________ Lori Swanson, Attorney General, Saint …
Publication • October 6, 2008
Addressing the Evidentiary Sources of Wrongful Convictions, Southwestern University Law Review, 2008 LITTLE M ACRO.DOC 10/6/08 11:23 PM ADDRESSING THE EVIDENTIARY SOURCES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS: CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE IN CAPITAL STATUTES Rory K. Little∗ In an effort to provoke realistic remedial thinking,1 this essay presents and discusses a proposed …