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It's Time for State, Federal Courts to Examine the 'Brady' Process

A recent book by Thomas L. Dybdahl, "When Innocence is Not Enough," published by The New Press, N.Y. 2023, gives a critical evaluation of the process.
7 minute read

Law.com

7th Circ. Reverses Ruling That 20-Year-Old PCRA Petition Hadn't Met Exhaustion Requirement

In 2003, James Evans filed a petition for postconviction relief following convictions for murder and solicitating murder. Twenty years later, with the petition still pending, the Seventh Circuit addressed "inordinate" delay.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Blocks Execution After Unusual Request From State Attorney General

The justices issued a stay pending their consideration of a condemned Oklahoma inmate's petition for review.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Oklahoma Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Stop State's Own Execution of Condemned Inmate

"I have never seen anything like this," criminal law expert says of Oklahoma attorney general's petition.
5 minute read

Law.com

'Improper' and 'Negative' Inferences in Prosecutor's Closing Argument Lead Washington Court to Reverse Criminal Conviction

Judge Tracy A. Staab for the Washington Court of Appeals reversed Steven David Stotts' convictions for second degree identity theft and forgery, despite sufficient evidence to support the convictions, as the prosecutor had engaged in improper vouching by suggesting that "that law enforcement witnesses would not risk their careers by testifying untruthfully."
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Officer's Gun Conviction Was a Miscarriage of Justice

Prosecutors and judges are immunized from liability because of mistakes. However they are not immunized from criticism.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Innovating for Innocence Part 2: Relativity, the Hawaii Innocence Project and the Exoneration of Ian Schweitzer

Through Relativity's Justice for Change program, the Hawaii Innocence Project and the Innocence Project were able to use the RelativityOne platform to find critical evidence that led to overturning the wrongful conviction of Ian Schweitzer in one of Hawaii's most high-profile criminal cases.
5 minute read

Law.com

Idaho Supreme Court Denies Media Outlets' Appeal of Gag Order in Moscow Murders Case

The Idaho Supreme Court unanimously denied a coalition of media companies' petitions seeking to vacate a judge's gag order in the criminal case of Bryan Kohberger, suspected of murdering four University of Idaho students.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Kemp Has Increased Concentration of Big Law Alumni on Ga.'s Top Courts, Report Argues

A paper from a left-leaning group said disparities are glaring in the Georgia Supreme Court, where all but two justices have backgrounds in either criminal prosecution or corporate defense.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Defense Attorneys Group Urges New Trial for Elizabeth Holmes

Prosecution violated procedural rules governing expert testimony in science-heavy case, says National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
3 minute read

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