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Wrongful Incarceration
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Legal Talk Network
“For the Innocent” Named Winner for Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact in the Individual Episode Category in the 3rd Annual Signal Awards
By Lisa Kirkman
PETALUMA, CA (Nov. 12, 2024) – Today, The Signal Awards presented Legal Talk Network and The Innocence Center with a bronze award for their exceptional activism, public service, and social…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Blog
Attorney Goldstein Wins New Trial For Client Who Served 18 Years for Wrongful Attempted Murder Conviction
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire, recently won a new trial for a client who served 18 years for a…
Legal Talk Network
Meet Marilyn Mulero, the Innocent Woman Who Was Wrongly Sentenced to the Death Penalty
Justin Brooks, Co-Founder of the California Innocence Project and Exoneree Marilyn Mulero A 2017 study published by the American Psychological Association found that approximately 90% of people would prefer to…
ZMO Law Blog
Victory in the Fourth Department
When the Hon. Paul B. Wojtaszek of Erie County Supreme Court vacated our client’s 30-year-old conviction last year, we were confident—maybe overconfident—that was the end of the story. James Pugh…
ZMO Law Blog
Who killed Dr. Sheikh?
ZMO Law client Alvin Alston was framed by police in 1987 murder of a Queens doctor. The same police framed Felipe Rodriguez—leading to 27 years in New York State prison…
UK Human Rights Blog
The Weekly Round-Up: UK’s wrongful imprisonment compensation scheme is legal and campaigners call for oversight of inquiries
By Kate Litman
In UK News A report published by the Runnymede Trust on Monday found that black people, and especially black children, are subject to disproportionate rates of strip search across all…
Insurance Coverage Law in Massachusetts
Even Whitey Bulger’s crimes end in insurance coverage disputes: Town of Braintree sues multiple insurance carriers for coverage for wrongful conviction claim by man framed by Bulger
By Nina Kallen
On May 24, 2024, the Town of Braintree filed a lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court against fifteen insurers, as well as insurance companies Does 1 though 50, for refusing…
Simple Justice
Halkides: Brandon Woodruff And The Murder Of His Parents
Ed. Note: Chris Halkides has been kind enough to try to make us lawyers smarter by dumbing down science enough that we have a small chance of understanding how it’s…
CrimProf Blog
Century & Roach on Wrongful Convictions and Unjust Immigration Detentions
Louis Century and Kent Roach (Goldblatt Partners LLP and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law) have posted Miscarriages of Justice in Immigration Detention ((2024) 42 University of British Columbia Law…
Legal Talk Network
Legal Talk Network Launches Season Two of ‘For the Innocent’ Podcast Sharing New Stories of the Wrongfully Convicted, Focusing on Pervasive Use of Junk Science in Convictions
By Lisa Kirkman
For the Innocent Podcast: Season 2 Wrongfully convicted, Zavion Johnson and others tell their exoneration stories in Season Two of Legal Talk Network’s For the Innocent Podcast. Real men and…