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$82,500 Damages to Detained American, Federal Judge Blasts ICE

Article • December 7, 2017

Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment, Immigration, False Arrest

$82,500 Damages to Detained American, Federal Judge Blasts ICE by Christopher Zoukis By Christopher Zoukis In a scathing opinion, Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, awarded a wrongfully detained American citizen $82,500 in damages for false arrest …

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 …

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 …

AL: Insurance Company Required to Pay $2.3M Award in Wrongful Imprisonment Suit

Article • October 27, 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, False Arrest

AL: Insurance Company Required to Pay $2.3M Award in Wrongful Imprisonment Suit by Lonnie Burton Robert Garland and John Tatum were convicted and sentenced in 1991 on federal drug charges ...

Bureaucracy Errors that Result in Overdetention Not Deliberate Indifference

Article • August 15, 2013

Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment

Bureaucracy Errors that Result in Overdetention Not Deliberate Indifference by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the overdetention of two prisoners was not due to deliberate indifference on the part of officials at Alabama’s Mobile County Jail. The Court’s ruling affirmed the grant of summary judgment to …

Failure to Ascertain Arrestee's Identity Creates Liability for False Imprisonment

Article • May 15, 2007

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Wrongful Imprisonment, Police, False Arrest

Failure to Ascertain Arrestee's Identity Creates Liability for False Imprisonment by Failure to Ascertain Arrestee's Identity Creates Liability for False Imprisonment The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Macon County, Alabama Sheriff's deputy who failed to make an attempt to obtain information from an arrestee for purposes of …