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Gondor v. State of Ohio, OH, Settlement, Wrongful Conviction, 2017
Brief • March 6, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Gondor v. State of Ohio, OH, Settlement, Wrongful Conviction, 2017 IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS OF OHIO ROBERT GONDOR, et al. Case No. 2015-00921-WI Plaintiffs Judge Patrick M. McGrath v. JOURNAL ENTRY APPROVING SETTLEMENT STATE OF OHIO Defendant The court, being fully advised as to the premises, approves and confirms …
$340,000 Awarded to Man Chicago Detective Falsely Claimed had Confessed to Murder
Article • February 21, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Wrongful Imprisonment, Police
$340,000 Awarded to Man Chicago Detective Falsely Claimed had Confessed to Murder by Leonard Robinson was arrested by Chicago police for battery. That charge was eventually dropped, but while he was held in jail for two days, then charged with killing his girlfriend's three-year-old son forty-one months earlier. He remained …
$13 Million Ohio Wrongful Conviction Verdict Upheld by Sixth Circuit
Article • February 21, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Informants, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
$13 Million Ohio Wrongful Conviction Verdict Upheld by Sixth Circuit by On December 2, 2014, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a district court jury verdict which awarded $13 million to a man who spent 12 years in prison for a murder conviction later overturned for malicious prosecution …
Crying Rape
Article • February 17, 2017
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Victims, Witnesses, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Crying Rape by False rape accusations exist, and they are a serious problem. By Cathy Young, Slate In the emotionally charged conversation about rape, few topics are more fraught than that of false allegations. Consider some responses to the news that singer-songwriter Conor Oberst had been falsely accused of sexual assault. …
$175,000 in Damages, Attorney Fees Against Sentinel Offender Services
Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
Filed under: Private Prisons, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Parole/Probation Searches, Wrongful Imprisonment, Probation, False Arrest
$175,000 in Damages, Attorney Fees Against Sentinel Offender Services by A Georgia state jury awarded $50,000 to a woman for false arrest and imprisonment by Sentinel Offender Services, a private probation company. The award was the outcome in the first trial of more than a dozen lawsuits filed against the …
A Story of Racial Bias, the Absence of Mercy, and a Death in Prison
Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Parole Board Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Racial Discrimination, Failure to Treat, Malicious Prosecution, Guilty Pleas, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Racial Profiling
A Story of Racial Bias, the Absence of Mercy, and a Death in Prison by By Equal Justice Initiative Forty-five years after Phillip Chance traveled from his home in Detroit, Michigan to visit family in rural Choctaw, Alabama, he died in an Alabama prison. During that visit in 1971, 15-year-old Phillip …
Texas: “San Antonio Four” Exonerated after Two Decades
Article • February 7, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, False Arrest
Texas: “San Antonio Four” Exonerated after Two Decades by In 1997, Elizabeth Ramirez, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera and Anna Vasquez were convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls. The women came to be known as the “San Antonio Four.” With help from the Innocence Project of Texas, all four were …
Five Wrongfully Convicted North Carolina Men Receive Almost $8 Million
Article • February 7, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Guilty Pleas, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Due Process, Police
Five Wrongfully Convicted North Carolina Men Receive Almost $8 Million by David Reutter Five former prisoners who were wrongfully convicted in a home invasion murder have received settlements and compensation totaling nearly $8 million following a botched investigation and misconduct by the sheriff’s office in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Three …
Boozer v. Waltman, PA, Complaint, Wrongful Arrest, 2017
Brief • January 16, 2017
Filed under: Malicious Prosecution, Wrongful Imprisonment, Money/Property, Mental Health, False Arrest
Boozer v. Waltman, PA, Complaint, Wrongful Arrest, 2017 Filed and Attested by the Office of Judicial Records 16 JAN 2017 03:35 pm J. OSTROWSKI Case ID: 160900497 IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA KHANEFAH BOOZER 1322 McKinley Street Philadelphia, PA 19111 CIVIL ACTION Plaintiff v. RYAN …
Illinois: DNA Evidence Exonerates One Man, Implicates Another
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Illinois: DNA Evidence Exonerates One Man, Implicates Another by On September 28, 2016, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced charges against convicted murderer Osborne Wade, 42, in connection with the brutal sexual assault and murder of a child in 1992. The charges followed an extensive investigation by the State’s …
$28.1 Million Jury Award after Eighth Circuit Allows Conspiracy Claims in Nebraska Wrongful Conviction Suit
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
$28.1 Million Jury Award after Eighth Circuit Allows Conspiracy Claims in Nebraska Wrongful Conviction Suit by Matthew Clarke On December 31, 2015, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that six wrongfully convicted former prisoners could sue Gage County, Nebraska for conspiring to manufacture false evidence; further, law enforcement officials …
Too Little, Too Late: Prosecutor Remorseful for Sending Innocent Man to Death Row
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Racial Discrimination, Prosecutors, Juries, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Death Row, Racial Profiling
Too Little, Too Late: Prosecutor Remorseful for Sending Innocent Man to Death Row by David Reutter The district attorney who prosecuted Glenn Ford, a Louisiana man exonerated after spending 30 years on death row, called capital punishment “an abomination that continues to scar the fibers of this society.” That statement …
Kansas Supreme Court Modifies “Exoneration Rule”
Article • January 3, 2017
Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Attorney Misconduct, Malpractice (Attorneys), Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Kansas Supreme Court Modifies “Exoneration Rule” by Matthew Clarke In an opinion handed down on December 31, 2015, the Supreme Court of Kansas modified the requirement that a criminal defendant be exonerated prior to suing the attorney who represented him (the “exoneration rule”). Under the modification, reversal of a conviction …
Exonerated Ohio Prisoner’s Claim for Improperly Released Medical Record to Proceed
Article • January 3, 2017
Filed under: Medical Records, Settlements, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Bankruptcy, Privacy Act
Exonerated Ohio Prisoner’s Claim for Improperly Released Medical Record to Proceed by An Ohio Court of Appeals held a trial court improperly granted summary judgment to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) in a lawsuit claiming invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The suit was …
Exonerations 2013, Innocence Network, 2013
Publication • December 28, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Exonerations 2013, Innocence Network, 2013 INNOCENCE NETWORK EXONERATIONS 2013 CONTENTS I. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT...................................................................3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Erika Applebaum Innocence Project of Minnesota II. THE CASES .. .............................................................................................4 1. BENNIE STARKS................................................................................................... 4 2. KRISTINE BUNCH................................................................................................ 4 3. GEORGE ALLEN................................................................................................. 5 Shawn Armbrust Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project 4. RONALD ROSS .................................................................................................. …
Phoenix Fire Investigators and Insurance Company Implicated in Wrongful Prosecutions
Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Police Misconduct, Evidence, Dogs, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Phoenix Fire Investigators and Insurance Company Implicated in Wrongful Prosecutions by Joe Watson Following a decision by Arizona prosecutors not to criminally charge a pair of Phoenix Fire Department (PFD) investigators who allegedly lied under oath and trained a dog to implicate innocent people, victims have pursued justice through civil …
Alabama Prisoner Exonerated after Serving 30 Years on Death Row
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Racial Discrimination, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Row, Racial Profiling
Alabama Prisoner Exonerated after Serving 30 Years on Death Row by After almost 30 years, Alabama death row prisoner Anthony Ray Hinton was freed on April 3, 2015 – at the age of 58 – when prosecutors dropped the charges against him. At the time of his release, Hinton, who …
Pennsylvania: Former Cop Indefinitely Jailed for Failure to Supply Passwords
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Evidence, Computer Searches, Computers, Wrongful Imprisonment
Pennsylvania: Former Cop Indefinitely Jailed for Failure to Supply Passwords by In March 2015, former Philadelphia police sergeant Francis Rawls, 37, was identified as a suspect in a child porno­graphy ring. As part of the investigation, Delaware County authorities confiscated several electronic devices from Rawls’ home and requested that he …
Wayward Prosecutors Go Unpunished as Prison Time for Victims Piles Up
Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Criminal Prosecution, Prosecutors, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Prosecutorial Immunity
Wayward Prosecutors Go Unpunished as Prison Time for Victims Piles Up by by Brooke Williams & Shawn Musgrave Massachusetts prosecutors have violated defendants’ rights to a fair trial regularly and without punishment, even as wrongfully convicted victims of tainted prosecutions have spent years in prison before being freed, decades of …
Pennsylvania v. Livingstone, PA, Appeal-Opinion, Illegal Detention, 2016
Brief • November 2, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment, Fourth Amendment, rights, Search and Seizure, Fourth Amendment
Pennsylvania v. Livingstone, PA, Appeal-Opinion, Illegal Detention, 2016 [J-112-2016] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN DISTRICT SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Appellee v. VICTORIA LIVINGSTONE, Appellant : : : : : : : : : : : No. 11 WAP 2016 Appeal …
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