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Durham shifts course, pays Darryl Howard millions for wrongful conviction, prison time
Durham Herald-Sun McClatchy via AOL· 2 days agoExclusive: In 2021, a jury awarded Darryl Howard $6 million for a wrongful conviction, but Durham...
Chatham District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit develops prioritization tool to review cases
Gannett via AOL· 4 days agoThen, Donner, along with multiple GIP attorneys and The Quattrone Center, highlighted wrongful ...
Louisiana bill to castrate sex offenders moving toward governor’s desk for signature
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBut Reilly said Louisiana had one of the highest wrongful conviction rates in the country, and he...
St. Louis prosecutor wants to boost staffing, asks for $500K more
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 1 day agoAt a news conference Thursday recapping his first year in office, the city’s top prosecutor said the...
Johnson: Wailing over Trump’s convictions proves GOP ‘rule of law’ stance is sham
Birmingham News· 5 hours agoNow that one of their own—their big boo-thang—is a felon, justifiably convicted under rule of law by...
Replacing Prison Uniforms With Custom Suits
New York Times· 2 days agoSix exonerees involved with the Innocence Project, which works to overturn wrongful convictions using scientific methods like DNA, recently tried to...
Sponsor says measure to close Weinstein loophole is ‘dead’ in the New York State Assembly
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 3 days agoAs the New York state legislative session winds down, it appears unlikely that a bill will pass to close a legal loophole that led to the overturning of the rape ...
Federal Rule of Evidence 413 and Harvey Weinstein | New York Law Journal
Law.com· 2 days agoIn 1995, Federal Rule of Evidence 413 became law. It states that “[in] a criminal prosecution in which a defendant is accused of a sexual assault, the court may admit evidence that the defendant ...
The 50 Best True-Crime Podcasts
Esquire via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoThere’s no better way to pass the time than listening to the grisly and unthinkable crimes committed throughout history, right? Here are the best...
Bill, Spurred by Weinstein Case, Opening Door to 'Molineux' Evidence, Needs Gubernatorial Boost,...
Law.com· 3 days agoThe measure was crafted largely in response to a controversial 4-3 decision by New York’s top court...