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After the trial, a Change.org petition requesting clemency for Vaught quickly garnered over 200,000 signatures. [2] [14]In response to the public backlash, the prosecutor's office issued a statement in which it defended its decision to prosecute Vaught: "The jury's conviction of Radonda Vaught was not an indictment against the nursing profession or the medical community.
An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in an action. It is a claim made by the respondent or defendant that the other party is misusing or perverting regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) not justified by the underlying legal action.
The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [119] The cases involved claims that a pedophile sex ring performed Satanic ritual abuse: as many as 60 young children testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years imprisoned. 34 convictions were ...
"The judge today ruled to dismiss this case just as the DOJ - which launched three separate probes - and the Manhattan district attorney did previously," a Cuomo rep said.
A news item stated that "he has helped in the fight for the creation of a review board for cases of wrongful conviction." [19] [20] Milgaard became ill on May 14, 2022. He was taken to a hospital in Calgary, where he died the following day at the age of 69 from complications of pneumonia. [21] [22] [23]
At a press conference on August 31, 2017, nurse Wubbels and her attorney released footage of the incident taken from hospital surveillance and police body cameras. [10] The footage of the incident soon went viral online. [11]
Nurse Education Today is a peer-reviewed nursing journal covering nursing, midwifery, and healthcare education published by Elsevier. It was established in 1981 and its editor-in-chief is Amanda Kenny. [1] Previous editors were Jean Walker, Peter Birchenall, Martin Johnson and William Lauder.
The first was the administration of pethidine, which can cause fatal interactions with phenelzine, the antidepressant that Zion was taking. Few clinicians knew of this interaction at the time, though it is now widely known because of this case. The second issue was the use of restraints and emergency psychiatric medication.