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Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Partial Justice by Christopher Zoukis How a Judiciary Poisoned by Politics, Ideology, and Unaccountability Contributes to the Wrongful Conviction of Innocent Men and Women by Christopher Zoukis, MBA Alexander Hamilton said in Federalist Paper No. 78 that the judiciary “may truly be said to have neither force nor will but …
Article • August 20, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
$13.1 Million Settlement Reached by Actor Framed for Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco approved a settlement of $13.1 million in a claim brought by a man who had spent more than six years in prison after police framed him for murder. …
Article • August 19, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
The Role of Police Misconduct in Wrongful Convictions by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Police misconduct takes on many forms, from unjustified violence, murder, torture, sexual assault, theft of evidence—usually cash or drugs—and extortion, to actively assisting or participating in organized crime. However, this article will focus on a narrow …
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 …
Exonerations: From Wrongful Conviction to Release and Beyond by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  A state-sponsored formal religion in the U.S. is forbidden by the nation’s Constitution. Regardless, one part of the country’s ethos closely approaches a level of worship. That part is freedom. Enshrined in the Pledge of Allegiance …
Article • June 22, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Wrongfully Convicted Detroit Man Who Spent 25 Years in Prison Files $125M Suit Alleging Detective Falsified Evidence by Chad Marks by Chad Marks  The cards were stacked against Desmond Ricks when he went to trial for the 1992 murder of Gerry Bennett outside a Detroit Top Hat restaurant. Detroit detectives …
Article • May 16, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Prosecutors Regret Man’s Wrongful Conviction in 1983 Florida Rape and Murder by The U.S. has seen a rise in exonerations in recent years. The National Registry of Exonerations (law.umich.edu) reports at least 139 exonerations in 2017, 166 in 2016 and 149 in 2015. But wrongfully convicted Ronald Stewart did not …
Article • May 15, 2019 • from CLN June, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Nebraska’s Beatrice Six Will Collect $28.1 Million Jury Award by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Popular country music singer Charlie Daniels’ first hit was a song called The Ballad of the Uneasy Rider. The singer-narrator told a story about a hippy who barely escapes a redneck bar and was so …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
$8.4 Million Combined Settlement Reached by ‘Norfolk Four’ by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Four former Navy sailors (the “Norfolk Four”), who were wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Michelle Bosko, agreed to a $4.9 million settlement with the City of Norfolk, Virginia.  Governor Ralph Northam then signed …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Erie County Convicted 11 People of Violating a Law Ruled Unconstitutional Over 20 Years Ago by Federal Court by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Erie County, New York, wrongfully convicted 11 people under a law that was ruled unconstitutional over 20 years ago — yet is still listed in the …
Sixth Circuit Rejects Qualified Immunity Claim in Malicious Prosecution Suit for Wrongful Arrest and Conviction Involving Multiple Lies by Police by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the denial of summary judgment filed by Detroit police in a lawsuit alleging malicious …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Government Snitches: Incentivized Witnesses Are the Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Every year, innocent people go to prison, or even death row, because of government informants who lie to get a good deal in their own criminal case. The problem, studies show, is the …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Forensic Entomology Helps Nevada Murder Convictee Get Exonerated After 17 Years in Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  In June 2001, 18-year-old Kirstin Blaise Lobato narrowly escaped being raped in Las Vegas, Nevada. With her small pocket knife, she wounded her attacker’s genitals. He was left intact but did …
Article • February 14, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of a Certificate of Innocence Needed as a Prerequisite for Damages for an Unjust Conviction and Imprisonment by Punch & Jurists by Punch & Jurists In Abu-Shawish, the Seventh Circuit addressed a little known and little used Federal proceeding that gives people who have been unjustly …
Norfolk Four v. State of Virginia, VA, Senate Bill 772, Wrongful Conviction, 2019 1/31/2019 Virginia-2018-SB772-Chaptered CHAPTER 503 An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 18.2 of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01 a section numbered 8.01-195.13 and for the relief of Danial J Williams, Joseph Jesse …
Article • January 19, 2019 • from CLN February, 2019
Illinois Law on Informants Designed to Avoid Wrongful Convictions by Betty Nelander by Betty Nelander Anew Illinois law aims to bring transparency to the use of jailhouse snitches, which are the main cause of wrongful convictions nationwide and the cause of at least 17 wrongful convictions in that state alone. …
Scottish Psychologist’s Study Focuses On Why the Innocent May Confess to Crimes by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Dr. Faye Skelton of Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has published a report detailing the tendency of some individuals to confess to crimes they did not commit. She noted that research from …
The Fallibility of Forensic Science: Crime-Solving Tool Can Lead to Wrongful Convictions—and Belated Exonerations by Rick Anderson by Rick Anderson It’s the ultimate crime-solving tool, enabling prosecutors to bring seemingly rock-solid charges against accused murderers and rapists while also using it to re-open and solve dust-collecting cold cases. Victims and …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Oklahoma’s Railroading its Citizens into Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Lynch mobs, vigilance committees, and necktie parties. These terms evoke what many stories refer to as frontier justice, where groups of people operated outside the established frameworks of law and order, sheriffs and courts, to wreak revenge on …
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