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Soldal v. Cook County, 506 U.S. 56 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a seizure of property like that which occurs during an eviction, even absent a search or an arrest, implicates the Fourth Amendment. The Court also held that the Amendment protects property as well as privacy interests, in both ...
Avery also filed a civil suit for wrongful conviction against Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and some county officials, seeking $36 million in damages. [ 165 ] [ 166 ] Avery settled the lawsuit for $400,000, used for his defense of the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach , for which he and nephew Brendan Dassey were convicted.
Being wrongfully convicted three times for the murder of Holly Staker and receiving the largest wrongful conviction settlement in US history Juan A. Rivera Jr. (born October 31, 1972) is an American man who was wrongfully convicted three times for the 1992 rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan, Illinois .
The Ford Heights Four (Verneal Jimerson, [1] Dennis Williams, [2] Kenneth Adams, [3] and Willie Rainge) were formerly imprisoned convicts, who were falsely accused and convicted of the double murder of Lawrence Lionberg and Carol Schmal in Ford Heights, Illinois, and later exonerated. Jimerson and Williams were sentenced to death, Adams to 75 ...
Days after the Public Investigator team wrote about the eviction threat against Carolyn Bolton, Sycamore Place issued an apology to the 98-year-old.
Illinois Innocence Project. In 2001, Clutter co-founded the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Clutter co-taught the university's first class on wrongful convictions. [6] He co-wrote the Bloodworth Grant the awarded $687 thousand to establish a post-conviction program in Illinois to prove actual innocence.
One year after the evictions, the bank loaned Lagos authorities $200 million to support the state government’s budget. The World Bank said it was “not a party to the demolition” and that it advised the Lagos government to negotiate with displaced people, leading to compensation for most of those who said they’d been harmed.
Williams v. Illinois, 399 U.S. 235 (1970), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that, if a person cannot afford to pay a fine, it violates the Equal Protection Clause to convert that unpaid fine into jail time to extend a person's incarceration beyond a statutory maximum length. [1] The syllabus of the case stated: