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Defendant convicted in Los Angeles County Superior Court; conviction affirmed by California Court of Appeal; California Supreme Court declined review, and the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari, 535 U.S. 969 (2002). Holding; California's three strikes law does not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [115] 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 case concerns Derrick Chappell, 41, Morton Johnson, 44, and Samuel Grasty, 47, who each were convicted in separate trials of second-degree murder and other charges in 2000 and 2001 and ...
Yearwood heard Mallet's most recent petition and referred it to the Westchester County District Attorney's Office, which assigned the case to a special team that reviews claims of wrongful conviction.
Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States, 544 U.S. 696 (2005), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously overturned accounting firm Arthur Andersen's conviction of obstruction of justice in the fraudulent activities and subsequent collapse of Enron.
Michael Wayne Goldston, who is one of two men convicted of murder in the 2004 death of Nathan Alston, smiles at attorney Robert Sharpe before the start of a hearing revisiting the case’s outcome ...
The headstone of Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully convicted and executed for two murders that had been committed by his neighbour John Christie. A miscarriage of justice occurs when an unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, [1] such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. [2]
The amount is the largest known settlement reached in a wrongful conviction case in Indiana. Elkhart reaches $11.7 million settlement over wrongful conviction of man with mental disability Skip to ...