Topic
Wrongful Incarceration
467 published works
Wiley Executive Summary
Wrongful Conviction 2020: The Rising Tide of Insurance Trigger Litigation
Wrongful conviction lawsuits often give rise to insurance coverage trigger disputes. This white paper examines the liability, exposure and coverage arguments that underpin how most courts look at trigger for…
ZMO Law Blog
Freeing Felipe Rodriguez
Thirteen years ago Nina Morrison, a staff attorney at the Innocence Project – the organization, founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, that spawned the movement to use DNA to…
EvidenceProf Blog
Ronnie Long Petition for Rehearing En Banc
By Colin Miller
Download 2020.01.22 Petition for Rehearing En Banc
EvidenceProf Blog
Lamar Johnson Letter
By Colin Miller
Download SB 541
The Faculty Lounge
Pace Law Review CFP: Reforms in the NY State Criminal Justice System
The Pace Law Review at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference on the theme of "Game-changing Reforms in the NYS Criminal…
The Faculty Lounge
Brendan Dassey Denied Clemency
As reported in the New York Times and elsewhere, Wisconsin's Governor Tony Evers has rejected Brendan Dassey's petition for commutation of his life sentence. My colleagues Laura Nirider and Steven…
Simple Justice
The Message Sent To The False Accuser
If the false accuser was a jailhouse snitch, it’s highly unlikely anyone would come to his defense and manufacture a narrative where he was merely the victim of an oppressive…
Mauck & Baker Blog
The Perseverance of William Dukes
By Mauck Baker
Written by attorney Terry S. LuWilliam Dukes was incarcerated for 15 years, 6 months, 2 days, and 45 minutes for a crime he didn’t commit. In 1993, a grandmother and her…
Wiley Executive Summary
Ill. Ruling Clarifies Wrongful Incarceration Insurance Triggers
By Karen L. Toto, Benjamin C. Eggert
This article was originally published in Law360. In Sanders v. Illinois Union Insurance Company, the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois resolved a split in state and federal decisions…
Simple Justice
Innocence, After The Fact
You have to give Kristen Etter credit, as she did two things of significance. The second was that she pulled it off, she went back to a conviction that happened…