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Wrongful Incarceration
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Wiley Executive Summary
5th Circ. Insights On Wrongful Conviction Insurance Coverage
By Karen L. Toto, Benjamin C. Eggert
This article was originally published in Law360 on July 10, 2019. In a long-running insurance coverage dispute, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently issued a…
Zalma on Insurance
The Eight Corners Rule Strikes Against Poor Policy Wording
By Barry Zalma
Injury Based – Not Tort Based – Policy Requires Defense It is axiomatic that bad facts will often make interesting law. The Fifth Circuit, faced with terrible facts of wrongful…
Legal Profession Blog
Great Harm, Light Sanction
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals accepted a proposed short suspension and probation of an attorney for misconduct in his representation of a criminal client.His inaction led to wrongful…
EvidenceProf Blog
Court of Appeals of South Carolina Finds Wrongfully Convicted Defendants Don’t Have a Constitutional Right to Compensation
By Colin Miller
Recently, the Court of Appeals of South Carolina issued its opinion in Palmer v. State. That opinion answered a simple question: Does a wrongfully convicted defendant have a Constitutional right to…
Simple Justice
When The Bill Comes Due In Gage County
One of the most obvious reasons people should care about bad cops and prosecutors is that DNA has brought some of the mistakes home. Not just that it happened, but…
From Briefs to Books
Good Kids, Bad City—A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America – by Kyle Swenson
“...the American justice system repeatedly fails to fully analyze its own mistakes and abuses. In wrongful convictions, lawsuits and cash settlements have become common, but the system itself has little…
EvidenceProf Blog
Governor Gavin Newsom Orders Additional DNA Testing in the Kevin Cooper Case
By Colin Miller
At one point, Kevin Cooper was eight hours away from execution. Now, he might be closer than ever to being released. [Kevin] Cooper was convicted of the first-degree murders of Franklyn…
Napoli Shkolnik Blog
John Ramsey Files Motion for Exoneration
John Ramsey spent 33 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He and his legal team, including civil rights attorney Craig Phemister, recently filed a motion to prove…
EvidenceProf Blog
The Wrongful Conviction of Kelvin Bradley & How a Private Bill Could Get Him Compensation
By Colin Miller
Currently, 33 states have laws that allow the wrongfully convicted to receive compensation based upon their years of imprisonment. Georgia is not one of those states. What this means is…
Lawdiva's Blog
Guest Post: 3 Ways Coercive Questions Lead to False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions
Photo by Donald Tong on Pexels.comMany crime-based movies have been made about the wrongly accused and imprisoned, but the scenario plays out often in real life as well. One contributing…