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Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: Rapper Jay-Z has hired attorney Alex Spiro for a family preparing to sue the city of Phoenix for $10 million, alleging excessive force by police, unlawful imprisonment, false arrest, physical injuries, emotional stress and civil rights violations after their 4-year-old daughter walked out of a …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Record Number of Exonerations Prompts Michigan AG to Create Conviction Integrity Unit by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Few nightmares can equate with being an innocent person wrongly convicted and incarcerated. Since innocence projects began appearing in the 1990s, dozens of prisoners in Michigan have been exonerated. In 2017 a …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
$21 Million Settlement for Wrongfully Convicted Man Released After 39 Years in Prison by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Simi Valley, California, and a wrongfully convicted man who spent nearly four decades in prison have reached a $21 million settlement. Craig Coley was convicted of the 1978 murders of Rhonda …
Police, Prosecutor Misconduct Continues Unabated as Evidenced by Record Number of Exonerations in 2018 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to an analysis of the National Registry of Exonerations performed by the Death Penalty Information Center, a record 151 exonerations were reported in 2018. Victims of wrongful homicide convictions …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Searches
Report: Google Can Track You Even When Your Phone’s Off by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso  An article recently published on TheAntiMedia.com highlights various ways the U.S. government and corporations track one’s everyday movements through his or her cellphone and singles out Google’s Sensorvault project for scrutiny.  Between the revelations …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Jail Specific, Immigration
New York Court of Appeals: Jury Trial Right Attaches to Deportable Crimes Punishable by Less Than Six Months in Jail by David Reutter by David Reutter As a matter of first impression, the Court of Appeals of New York ruled that a noncitizen defendant charged with state crimes that carry …
$270,000 Awarded to Grandmother Brutalized by Pennsylvania Cops by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Peacefully sleeping the night away, grandmother Charlene Klein was rudely awakened by Allentown, Pennsylvania, cops beating on her door on May 2, 2016. A law-abiding citizen, she opened her front door in response to the Knights …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
$1 Million Settlement for NYC Crime Lab Tech Who Blew Whistle on Use of Untested DNA Tests for Decades by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Television crime dramas like Bones and CSI that depict sterile, efficient crime labs seem to be little more than good art imitating bad life as …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Habeas Corpus
Wisconsin Supreme Court Holds That Statute Doesn’t Require Habeas Petitioner to Plead Timeliness, Overruling Smalley v. Morgan by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Wisconsin held that neither Wisconsin Statute (“Wis. Stat”) § (Rule) 809.51 nor principles of equity impose a “prompt and speedy” pleading requirement in …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Report Finds Lack of Reporting on Deaths in Law Enforcement Custody, Even After Landmark Legislation by Steve Horn by Steve Horn The Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice has unfurled a new study on state and federal law enforcement agencies’ reporting of deaths of individuals …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Sentencing
Study Details the Effect of Brain Scan Evidence on Sentencing by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso A new study shows that neurobiological evidence (brain scans) used at sentencing may reduce the amount of prison time prescribed at sentencing but may conversely also increase the amount of prescribed involuntary hospitalization.  This …
NYC Program Helps Former Prisoners Realize Their Dream by A vast majority of prisoners dream of getting out of prison and staying out. They talk about it, and most plan for it. A program in New York City called “Getting Out and Staying Out,” or “GOSO” for short, helps former …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
‘They need to be marked for life’ by Sandy Rozek by Sandy, NARSOL The mandatory chemical castration law that has just passed in Alabama is being debated every way possible. Health professionals are weighing in on why, medically, it is not an effective prevention strategy. From a moral and human rights …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: FBI
The FBI Polices Itself Like Kids Guarding a Candy Store by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the early 1970s, an armed team entered a Stockholm, Sweden, bank to rescue hostages being held by bank robbers, as well as to, hopefully, arrest the robbers.  To the rescuers’ shock and surprise, …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Informants
Fifth Circuit: Confrontation Clause Violated When Officer’s Testimony Relates Incriminating Information Received From Non-Testifying Informant by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that when a testifying officer relates the statement of a non-testifying confidential informant that facially incriminates a defendant, it …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Eighth Circuit Overlooks Procedural Default, Orders Immediate Release From Excessive ACCA Sentence Based on Prior Sex Offense by Michael Berk by Michael Berk The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed the denial of William Anthony Lofton’s 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition, remanding to the U.S. District Court …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Bail
New York City’s Bail Success Story by Bill Barton by Bill Barton A new study that analyzed more than 5 million criminal cases in New York City — beginning in 1987 — intimates that the city has “already done a better job of slashing its use of bail and jail …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Ninth Circuit: Running From Police Alone Doesn’t Give Rise to Reasonable Suspicion Justifying Stop and Frisk by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that running from police, by itself, does not provide reasonable suspicion to justify stopping and frisking the person. …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Georgia Supreme Court Announces New Evidence Code Abrogates Categorical Exclusionary Rule of Mallory by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On May 6, 2019, the Supreme Court of Georgia held that the categorical exclusionary rule first announced in Mallory v. State, 409 S.E.2d 839 (Ga. 1991), is no longer the law …
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police
Under Marsy’s Law, Police Using Violence Can Claim ‘Victim’ Status by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Citizens encounter cops in many ways. Cops respond to emergencies, provide security at some public gatherings and private forums, direct traffic, and address children in schools. Aside from uniform colors and headgear styles, cops …
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