Sentences with phrase «on wrongful conviction cases»

Klinkosum's work on wrongful conviction cases continues to inform his private practice.

Not exact matches

He dropped appeals of a judge's ruling on stop - and - frisk and he settled the long - running wrongful conviction case for the «Central Park Five.»

The district attorney's office has a wrongful conviction unit working on botched cases, but Adams said that apart from individual cases there hasn't been a full accounting of what went wrong and who was responsible.

After Willingham was executed, the Innocence Project, a national nonprofit legal organization focused on overturning wrongful convictions, assembled a team of leading arson investigators, who concluded that none of the evidence for arson in the case was scientifically valid.

The keynote will be followed by workshop sessions on a wide variety of topics of interest to criminal, juvenile, child welfare and mental health practitioners, including but not limited to the wrongful conviction and exoneration of Frederick Clay, litigating nursing home admissions, appellate advocacy, criminal case law update, how to use social science research in your case, the new sentencing guidelines, restorative justice, ensuring language access, advanced issues in Superior Court litigation, representing emerging adults, how to contest preliminary drug test results, a practicum on mindfulness, as well as the latest from the immigration impact unit.

In wrongful conviction cases however the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that the limit does not apply to damages for non ‑ pecuniary loss that do not stem from bodily injury (relying on Cinar Corporation v. Robinson, 2013 SCC 73, [2013] 3 S.C.R. 1168, at para. 97).

Regardless of where you stand on the question of whether there should be criminal prosecution in these cases (you can read my thoughts on this here), any Maryland accident lawyer will tell you that this question is of little consequence to the family's wrongful death lawsuit because there is little difference to the accident case whether the conviction is for vehicular manslaughter or for the ticket that this P.G. County police officer did receive in this case (assuming the ticket is involves something beyond speeding).

Prior to her work at MAIP, she served as a law clerk to Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and was the case coordinator at the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Northwestern University School of Law.

Cases based on the SBS / AHT hypothesis pose a serious risk of wrongful conviction.

Seth Miller, Esq., Executive Director, litigates post-conviction innocence cases, supervises the IPF's internship program, and regularly lectures to students, lawyers, and community groups on issues related to wrongful convictions.

It was found that this sergeant's corruption was responsible for numerous wrongful convictions and those were subsequently overturned last year with more cases expected to surface as time goes on.

Perhaps the fact that 45 % of wrongful convictions in capital cases are based on jailhouse snitches has something to do with it.

Lawyers from the University of Michigan's Michigan Innocence Clinic and Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions took up McCann's case in response to Target 8's Making a Monster investigation that showed police lied repeatedly while interrogating him.

Based on the DNA evidence, and the new evidence that Det. Handy was recommended for a criminal investigation for his misconduct in another wrongful conviction case, Meade County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Butler vacated Hardin's and Clark's convictions in July 2016 and later released them on bail.

Naughton, explaining his reasons for pulling the plug on INUK, said that it was «no longer acceptable that hundreds of students around the country can say on their CVs that they are working with an INUK innocence project when they know next to nothing about INUK or how to work on an alleged wrongful conviction cases».

[that wouldn't be allowed in under normal circumstances] and the very fact that deposed officers in a major civil case * where their own assets were on the line as the insurance for wrongful conviction suits dropped them * were allowed to step one foot on that property?