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Florida Prisoner Returns to Custody After Overturned Conviction Reinstated by Exactly one week before his 67th birthday, Florida prisoner Crosley Green returned to custody of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) on September 4, 2024—two and a half years after a state court granted him provisional release while the state …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Alabama Governor Commutes Death Sentence by For only the second time in over 25 years, an Alabama governor commuted a state prisoner’s death sentence on February 28, 2025. Gov. Kay Ivey (R) took Robin “Rocky” Dion Myers, 63, off death row at Holman Correctional Facility, so he will now spend …
Oregon Supreme Court: Governor Can’t Revoke Commutation After Sentence Expires by In a bizarre case of Orwellian government overreach, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) reincarcerated former state prisoner Terri Lee Brown for a parole violation after her parole ended. But on May 8, 2024, the Oregon Supreme Court slapped …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Biden Commutes Sentences of Most Federal Prisoners on Death Row by On December 23, 2024, outgoing Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) commuted the sentences of all but three federal prisoners facing execution. The 37 prisoners receiving commutations will now serve life in custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Ninth Circuit Reverses Federal Prisoner’s Conviction for Assaulting Guards at California Prison by On April 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the conviction of a federal prisoner for assaulting two guards. The Court concluded that Gabriel Mirabal should have been permitted to present evidence …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Illinois Prisoners Stage Hunger Strikes Over DOC Failure to Implement New Sentence Reduction Law by Two Illinois prisoners staged hunger strikes in June 2024 to protest the state’s foot-­dragging in granting sentence credits provided a year earlier under a new law. With promises from Robinson Correctional Facility officials to expedite …
California Resentences 15 Condemned Prisoners to Life Without Parole by On April 5, 2024, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said that 15 prisoners on California’s death row from the county would be resentenced to life without parole. Rosen utilized a state law empowering district attorneys to reassess sentences …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
California Prisoner Wins Challenge to Overbroad CDCR Records Request Made Prior to Resentencing by Prisoners in custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) who were serving a sentence with an enhancement for a prior prison term became entitled to resentencing when Pen. Code§ 1172.75 took effect in 2022, …
Brief • August 20, 2024
State v. Trejo, FL, Juvenile Resentencing Order, Miller Resentencing, 2024 Filing # 205089436 E-Filed 08/20/2024 09:17:08 AM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA STATE OF FLORIDA, CASE NO.:50-2007-CF-017817-JXXX-MB CRIMINAL DIVISION (S) – Circuit vs. ROBERTO TREJO, Defendant. _______________________________/ JUVENILE RESENTENCING …
Indiana Supreme Court Says “Summary Judgment Is Not Summary Trial,” Remanding State Prisoner’s Malpractice Claim to a Jury by On January 24, 2024, the Indiana Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling and remanded the medical malpractice complaint of state prisoner Edward Zaragoza against Wexford of Indiana LLC, the privately …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
California Felony-Murder Reform Shaves 11,000 Years Off 600 Prisoner Sentences by Douglas Ankney Douglas Ankney According to an analysis from California’s Office of the State Public Defender (OSPD), reforms to the state’s felony-murder statutes had a dramatic effect by August 3, 2023. By then the agency had found sentence reductions …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
First Prisoners Released Two Years After Illinois Passed Law to Revisit Excessive Sentences by When Charles Patton, 54, rolled out of Dixon Correctional Center in his wheelchair on July 19, 2023, he was the first Illinois prisoner freed under SB 2129, a re-sentencing measure passed two years earlier. The second …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
New York Jailhouse Lawyer Wins Resentencing, Release by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart At 28 years old, drug addicted and semi-homeless, Kelly Harnett was nobody’s idea of a model citizen. So when implicated along with boyfriend Thomas Donovan in a July 2010 murder in a public park in Queens, New …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
California Supreme Court Remands Guards’ Overturned Murder Convictions In Detainee Death At Santa Clara County Jail by On May 31, 2023, the Supreme Court of California vacated and remanded to the Court of Appeal a decision handed down in August 2022, overturning the second-degree murder convictions of three guards who …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Federal Prisoner in Pennsylvania Gets Sentence Reduction After Guard Rapes Her by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On December 15, 2022, the U.S, District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reduced Rashidah Brice’s sentence by 30 months. Brice had filed a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Tennessee Juvenile Murderer’s Sentence Commuted by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon One of the late great singer Karen Carpenter’s hit songs was Bless the Beasts and the Children, wherein she lamented that neither has choice nor voice. Such was the case with young Cyntoia Brown, who found herself being trafficked …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
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California Judge Reconsiders Six Months’ Jail for Cookie Theft at Rehab Program by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Gregory Fields was in a court-ordered rehab program at the Salvation Army Harbor Light Center in San Francisco. He had completed a 30-day detox and blackout period when he started the …
U.S. v. Diaz, CA, Opinion, Importation of Drugs, 2018 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 16-50102 v. D.C. No. 3:15-cr-02484-BEN-1 ALEJANDRO AGUILAR DIAZ, Defendant-Appellant. OPINION Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Roger …
Brief • February 13, 2018
Higdon v. USA, TN, Opinion, Discharging Firearm as Use of Force, 2018 RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 18a0030p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DARYL LYNN HIGDON, Petitioner-Appellant, ┐ │ │ > v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent-Appellee. │ │ …
Brief • January 29, 2018
Solorio-Ruiz v. Sessions, CA, Opinion, Sentencing, Immigration, 2018 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ROBERTO SOLORIO-RUIZ, AKA Alejandro Cervantes-Calderon, AKA Manuel Ortiz Espinosa, AKA Mark Anthony Lopez, AKA Robert Salazar, Petitioner, No. 16-73085 Agency No. A034-223-887 OPINION v. JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent. …
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