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After Years of Hard Work and Dedication, Adnan Syed Is Freed by Serendipity
Article • March 15, 2023 • from CLN April, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence
After Years of Hard Work and Dedication, Adnan Syed Is Freed by Serendipity by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins There are thousands of people incarcerated in America who are factually innocent. Until September of 2022, Adnan Syed was one of them. And, while we celebrate his freedom after it was …
Maryland Court of Appeals: ‘No Objection’ to Introduction of Evidence at Trial That Was the Subject of Denied Motion to Suppress Does Not Waive Right to Appellate Review of Denial
Article • March 15, 2023 • from CLN April, 2023
Maryland Court of Appeals: ‘No Objection’ to Introduction of Evidence at Trial That Was the Subject of Denied Motion to Suppress Does Not Waive Right to Appellate Review of Denial by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that defense counsel did not waive Luis …
Maryland Cop Arrested for Sexually Abusing Woman During Traffic Stop
Article • December 18, 2022
Filed under: Assault by Police, Police Misconduct, Traffic stop
Maryland Cop Arrested for Sexually Abusing Woman During Traffic Stop by Kaden Gicker by Kaden Gicker A Maryland police officer’s nascent, misconduct-riddled career was upended, when a woman sat down in front of a camera on Oct. 30, 2022, and agreed to be interviewed by detectives. The 27-year-old had a …
News in Brief
Article • December 15, 2022 • from CLN January, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: A police officer in Scottsdale was arrested on Nov. 4, 2022, after allegedly causing a car crash while intoxicated. AZFamily reported that officer Michael Lanouar, a police detective, was taken into custody on suspicion that he had been driving a city-leased car while under the …
News in Brief
Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Court documents revealed the week of Oct. 3, 2022, show that a former Brookside police chief, Mike Jones, was indicted by a grand jury for speeding and impersonating an officer. AL.com reported that Jones had resigned from his post as the town’s Chief of Police …
Maryland’s AG to Review 100 In-Custody Deaths After Chief Medical Examiner’s Testimony at George Floyd Trial Prompts 400 Colleagues to Question His Work
Article • October 30, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Official Report
Maryland’s AG to Review 100 In-Custody Deaths After Chief Medical Examiner’s Testimony at George Floyd Trial Prompts 400 Colleagues to Question His Work by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On October 20, 2022, a little over a year after it was convened, the seven-member Audit Design Team released …
News in Brief
Article • October 15, 2022 • from CLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arkansas: A Mulberry police officer and two sheriff’s deputies from Crawford County were suspended after a video surfaced appearing to show them beating a man suspected of making violent threats. Maine Public Radio reported that the three officers were videoed by a bystander as they held …
News in Brief
Article • September 15, 2022 • from CLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 4, 2022, the Vincent City Council voted to fully dissolve the city’s police force after racist text messages by a top officer were discovered, CNN reported. The city is home to about 2,000 residents and until the vote by the council, had just …
News in Brief
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Canada: Techdirt reported that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”), a division of that country’s federal law enforcement akin to the FBI, used malware to spy on people’s personal communications. The report came after the RCMP admitted to doing so in the summer of 2022. The …
News in Brief
Article • July 15, 2022 • from CLN August, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: The Daily News reported that two former police officers from Fullerton and Anaheim were indicted on counts of kidnapping while working illegally as bounty hunters. The former officers were Rodger Corbett, 49, formerly of the Fullerton PD and Kevin Pedersen, 34, formerly of the Anaheim …
Maryland Court of Appeals: Kazadi Applies to Cases Where Issue Was Preserved at Trial but Appeal Not Yet Noted at Time Kazadi Decided
Article • July 15, 2022 • from CLN August, 2022
Filed under: Jury Instructions in Jury Room, Claim of Innocence
Maryland Court of Appeals: Kazadi Applies to Cases Where Issue Was Preserved at Trial but Appeal Not Yet Noted at Time Kazadi Decided by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“MCOA”) held that its holding in Kazadi v. State, 223 A.3d 554 (Md. 2020) applies …
News in Brief
Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief Britain: A court hearing at London’s highest legal body is scheduled for late June 2022, The Guardian reported. It will concern a lawsuit brought against the City of London police for allegedly wrongfully tasering a Black man on April 7, 2018. Case was …
Cop Training Other Cops to Use Facial Recognition to ID Individuals During Traffic Stops
Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022
Filed under: junk science, Traffic stop, Authentication/Identification
Cop Training Other Cops to Use Facial Recognition to ID Individuals During Traffic Stops by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Maryland Detective Nick Jerman was featured in a July 2021 episode of the Street Cop Podcast in which he teaches officers to use subterfuge and publicly available facial recognition …
University of Maryland-Releasing Older Prisoners Convicted of Violent Crimes, 2022-03
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Release and Reentry
University of Maryland-Releasing Older Prisoners Convicted of Violent Crimes, 2022-03 Releasing Older Prisoners Convicted of Violent Crimes: The Unger Story Michael A. Millemann Jennifer Elisa Chapman Samuel P. Feder University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022–03 ....... ~ ..· IV'ERSITY. of MARYLAN'D …
Maryland Court of Appeals Announces Accepting Empaneled Jury Doesn’t Waive Prior Objection to Trial Court’s Refusal to Propound a Voir Dire Question
Article • May 1, 2022 • from CLN May, 2022
Filed under: During Trial
Maryland Court of Appeals Announces Accepting Empaneled Jury Doesn’t Waive Prior Objection to Trial Court’s Refusal to Propound a Voir Dire Question by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeals of Maryland affirmed a decision of the Court of Special Appeals (“CSA”) that held a defendant’s acceptance of …
Canter v. Santana, MD, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2022
Brief • April 14, 2022
Filed under: Excessive Force, Transgender, Failure to Protect (Transgender)
Canter v. Santana, MD, Complaint, Excessive Force, 2022 Case Case8:19-cv-02395-JKB 8:19-cv-02395-JKB Document Document 63-1 72 Filed Filed 04/14/23 08/31/22 Page Page11ofof26 26 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND NORTHERN DIVISION AMBER M. CANTER c/o Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, P.A. 1 South Street, 30th Floor Baltimore, …
Maryland Prosecutor Covers for FBI Agent’s Lies in Defense of Junk Science
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Filed under: junk science
Maryland Prosecutor Covers for FBI Agent’s Lies in Defense of Junk Science by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Despite the constant glamorization of forensic evidence analysis that has become so common on TV shows, regular readers of CLN should be well aware that what passes for “science” in many actual …
News in Brief
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On December 21, 2021, two former police officers in West Blocton, Alabama, were arrested and charged with sexual assault. According to WBRC, a news station serving Birmingham, the Tuscaloosa Police Department announced that the former officers, Craig Baird Arnold, 49, and Brian Keith Whatley, 50, …
Non-Prosecution Policies Seem to Work in Baltimore
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Filed under: Alternative Sentencing
Non-Prosecution Policies Seem to Work in Baltimore by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins  The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic is credited with accelerating many trends that were already emerging before the plague struck. From work-at-home to mRNA vaccines, many of these new trends seem to have won a permanent place …
News in Brief
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: The family of a homeless and mentally ill man who died after being restrained by Phoenix cops in 2017 will get $5 million from the city, after a 7-2 city council vote in favor of the payment on November 17, 2021, according to a report …
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