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Article • April 15, 2023 • from CLN May, 2023
Filed under: Retroactivity
California Court of Appeal: Trial Court Erred by Concluding Senate Bill 1393 Does Not Apply to Cases Already Final on Appeal by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, held that the trial court erred by denying recall of a prisoner’s sentence on …
Article • April 9, 2023
Forensic Re-creations of Police Abuse and Landmark Settlements Thanks to That Cell Phone in Your Pocket by by Jordan Arizmendi Chances are, if you are reading this article, you are well acquainted with the ways in which technology, like facial recognition and cell phone location tracking, strip away our civil …
Article • March 22, 2023
Facing Driving-While-Suspended Charge in Oregon? DMV Has Thousands of Inaccurate Records, So You May Actually Be Innocent. But Other Innocent Drivers Already Sent to Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Oregon law enforcement stopped Nicholas Chappelle on January 30, 2022, for expired tags. When the officer ran …
Article • March 16, 2023
911 Call Analysis Debunked as Pseudoscience – But It Helped Send Many to Prison by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The 911 call analysis method used to convict hundreds of defendants for the past decade has been debunked as pseudoscience. Civil rights activists call to have prosecutors held responsible …
Article • March 16, 2023
It’s Time for Jaywalking Laws to Take a Hike by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The crime of jaywalking becomes more and more uncommon as communities across the nation push to have the charge decriminalized or abolished. Jaywalking is a term started around 1910-1920 as a means of denigrating …
New Jersey Supreme Court: Allowing Jury to Hear Defendant’s Invocation of Right to Counsel in Recorded Statement Together With Prosecutor Inferring Guilt Based on Request for Counsel Entitles Defendant to New Trial by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett The Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the convictions and sentence of …
Article • March 15, 2023 • from CLN April, 2023
Filed under: junk science
An Argument Without Teeth: The Flawed Science of Bite Mark Analysis by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD A review published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) found that forensic bite mark analysis lacks sufficient scientific foundation. Adult humans have 32 teeth but only the foremost …
Article • March 10, 2023
Historic Settlement of $21,000 for Each Police Brutality Protester ‘Kettled’ and Beaten by NYPD by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On March 1, 2023, New York City agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 300 protesters who were penned up by NYPD …
Article • March 5, 2023
Chicago Pays $40 Million Per Year to Private Firms to Defend Police Violence Cases by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Police misconduct is costing the city of Chicago nearly $40 million a year in outside legal fees. Although the city has its own in-house counsel to handle legal …
Article • March 5, 2023
Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement Training Teaches Police Officers How to Intervene When Their Fellow Officers Use Excessive Force by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott An epidemic of police officers using excessive force in situations that do not require police brutality to subdue or arrest an individual in …
Article • March 4, 2023
$2 Million Settlement for Family of Beloved Musician, Cory Jones, Killed by Florida Cop Now Serving 25 Years for Slaying by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 23, 2023, the city of Palm Beach Gardens, 77 miles north of Miami, agreed to settle with the family of …
Article • February 19, 2023
Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement Training Teaches Police Officers How to Intervene When Their Fellow Officers Use Excessive Force by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott An epidemic of police officers using excessive force in situations that do not require police brutality to subdue or arrest an individual in …
Article • February 19, 2023
Illinois Town Will Pay $12 Million to Family After SWAT Officer Shot 12-Year-Old in Kneecap While Sitting on Bed With Hands Up by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In early February of 2023, Al Holfeld, Jr., lawyer for Crystal Worship and her son Amir, announced that their federal …
Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
Was the DNA at the Crime Scene Left by the Perpetrator – or by a Pet? by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Collaborating with the Victoria Police Forensic Services Department, forensic science researcher and Ph.D. candidate Heidi Monkman, along with Dr. Mariya Goray – both from the College of Science …
Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
Sixth Circuit Announces Nonretroactive Change in Sentencing Law Is Not an ‘Extraordinary and Compelling Reason’ Warranting a Sentence Reduction under Compassionate Release Statute by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A divided en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in a 9 to 7 split, held that a …
Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars. by Brett Murphy by Brett Murphy, ProPublica Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from suburban Dayton, Ohio, was hunting for praise. He had a business to promote: a miracle method to determine …
Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
Seventh Circuit: State Court Decision Not Entitled to AEDPA Deference Due to Incorrect Legal Standard, Pro Se Habeas Petition Granted Based on Trial Counsel’s Failure to Present Expert Witness on Determinative Issue of Guilt Resulting in IAC by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Berrett The U.S. Court of Appeals for the …
Filing • January 26, 2023
Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Order on Remand, PLN Censorship, 2023 Case 2:15-cv-02245-ROS Document 362 Filed 01/26/23 Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Prison Legal News, Plaintiff, 10 11 v. 12 …
Article • January 15, 2023 • from CLN February, 2023
Filed under: junk science
The Debunking of Forensic Science: A Decade of Increased Scrutiny Reveals Forensic Processes Prone to Bias and Error by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian When a crime is committed, it is vital that the actual perpetrator be identified and held accountable. However, that process is not always straightforward. Every …
Article • January 15, 2023 • from CLN February, 2023
Traditional Forensic Ballistics Comparisons Giving Way to Virtual 3D Methods by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Forensic experts have been conducting ballistics comparisons and presenting their testimony in courts for more than 100 years. Experts frequently imply that accurately identifying that a specific gun fired a particular bullet is …
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