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Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Never Convicted but Never Exonerated, Either by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Issues facing exonerees and wrongfully convicted individuals have been recurring topics in CLN and PLN. Still, there’s another category of arguably similarly situated citizens that must also be paid some attention: Those who were wrongfully accused of crimes …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Idaho Exoneree Fights for Wrongful Conviction Compensation by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Christopher Tapp of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was convicted of a murder and rape after 20-plus hours of interrogations over a three-week period in 1996. He was 19 at the time of his arrest. Despite being innocent of …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
$8 Million Settlement for Wrongfully Convicted and Imprisoned Missouri Man by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss David Robinson settled out of court with the city of Sikeston, Missouri, for $8 million for a wrongful murder conviction, which forced him to spend 18 years in prison for a crime he did …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Courts Oppose Prosecutors’ Attempts to Right Past Wrongs by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Over the past 10 years, a growing number of reform-minded prosecutors has emerged across the U.S., seeking not only to reform current tough-on-crime practices but also to acknowledge mistakes of the past. For example, in 2018, …
Brief • June 5, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Rubalcava v. City of San Jose, CA, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2020 Case 5:20-cv-04191-BLF Document 1 Filed 06/25/20 Page 1 of 65 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Nick Brustin (NY Bar …
Article • May 15, 2020 • from CLN June, 2020
Racism and Wrongful Convictions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Studies have shown that racial minorities are overrepresented among the known wrongful convictions. But even this simple and easily provable statement runs afoul of several difficulties, including a lack of clear definitions for key terms. The meaning of “race” is …
Article • April 15, 2020 • from CLN May, 2020
Wrongfully Convicted NY Man Freed After 24 Years by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins There were many times Pablo Fernandez could have given up. Yet after spending over half his life behind bars, he never wavered in maintaining his innocence. ‘‘It was so difficult for me to be in prison …
Article • April 15, 2020 • from CLN May, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Attacking the Guilty Plea: The Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Standard by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell More than 95 percent of state and federal prisoners plead guilty, and most of them do so on the advice of their lawyer. A successful attack on a guilty plea would then depend on …
Article • April 15, 2020 • from CLN May, 2020
Advanced DNA Technology Helps Free Innocent Georgia Man After Nearly 18 Years in Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On January 8, 2020, Kerry Robinson began the New Year and a new life as he left Georgia’s Coffee Correctional Facility a free man. He had spent nearly 18 years …
Article • March 18, 2020 • from CLN April, 2020
Filed under: Trials, Wrongful Conviction
Rhode Island Supreme Court Reverses Conviction Due to Prosecutor’s Remarks and Jury Consideration of Inadmissible Evidence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Rhode Island vacated the first-degree child molestation sexual assault conviction against Henry G. Bozzo due to a remark made by the prosecutor during closing …
Article • March 18, 2020 • from CLN April, 2020
Life Sentence for Murder Overturned by New DNA Technology by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. After nearly 10 years behind bars, Lydell Grant, now 42, is on his way to being exonerated after the highest criminal appellate court in Texas vacated his conviction following its review of revised …
Article • February 19, 2020 • from CLN March, 2020
DNA Contamination Threatened Conviction of Innocent Man by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The NYC Medical Examiner’s office (“ME”) reviewed the DNA analysis procedure in a burglary case that was the only evidence used to charge Darrell Harris with the crime. They found that the DNA sample could have been …
Article • January 21, 2020 • from CLN February, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Freedom or Restitution for the Wrongfully Convicted by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins "I’m sitting here a semblance, trying to get back to me,” Jimmy Dennis admitted from the relative safety of his living room, afraid to venture beyond his doorstep. Dennis exhibited the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, including …
Article • January 21, 2020 • from CLN February, 2020
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Thousands of Convictions Questioned; Prisoners Released Show Why Law Enforcement Technology Must Be Tested by Third Parties by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Denmark recently released dozens of prisoners after more than 10,000 convictions based on evidence derived from faulty software put people in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. …
Article • December 19, 2019 • from CLN January, 2020
National Fingerprint Database Frees Man After 36 Years by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Archie Williams seemed doomed to die in prison. Sentenced to life without parole for a 1982 stabbing and rape, he managed to survive in Louisiana’s Angola as months bled into years, and years pooled into decades. …
Man Freed Who Sat in Prison Nearly 30 Years While Prosecutors Withheld Evidence of Innocence by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A man who sat in prison for almost 30 years because prosecutors and police withheld evidence that someone else committed the crime was set free July 16, 2019, after …
Article • November 16, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Tell Me What I Want to Hear, Not What I Need to Hear: How Confirmation Bias Causes Wrongful Convictions by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell What if I invited you to a conference at a fancy hotel where experts would present solid evidence that questions the validity of something you …
Article • October 14, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Prosecutors Working to Clear Wrongful Convictions With Mixed Results by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Before the murder charge against him was finally dropped, Richard Phillips had the decidedly dubious distinction of being locked up longer than any other eventually exonerated prisoner—he was incarcerated for 45 years, convicted of a …
Brief • September 23, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Taylor v. City of Chicago, IL, Memo Opinion and Order, Wrongful Conviction, 2019 Case: 1:14-cv-00737 Document #: 524 Filed: 09/23/19 Page 1 of 34 PageID #:13021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION DANIEL TAYLOR, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Michigan Will Pay $1.5 Million to Longest Serving Exonerated Prisoner by Bill Barton by Bill Barton Richard Phillips, a Michigan man who was wrongfully incarcerated for 46 years before being exonerated in spring 2018, will receive a settlement of $1.5 million from the state, more than a year after he …
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