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It allows the court to vacate certain felony convictions which occurred after July 1, 1984. [61] Revised Code of Washington (RCW) Chapter 9.94A.640 allows the court to withdraw the finding of guilt and vacate a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor. [62] Once vacated, or expunged, the person's criminal record will not include that case.
Lionel Rubalcava, exonerated and freed after serving 17 years in prison, has settled a federal lawsuit against the city for a record $12 million. San José to pay record settlement of $12 million ...
District Attorney Eugene Gold re-opened the case and confirmed the accuracy of the journalist's claims before formally requesting that Whitmore's conviction be vacated. On April 10, 1973, the Brooklyn Supreme Court officially vacated Whitmore's conviction and exonerated him. Feb 21, 1965: Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam Assassination of ...
A vacated judgment is usually the result of the judgment of an appellate court, which overturns, reverses, or sets aside the judgment of a lower court. An appellate court may also vacate its own decisions. Rules of procedure may allow vacatur either at the request of a party (a motion to vacate) or sua sponte (at the court's initiative). [1]
In three of these cases, the defendants were on death row when they were either exonerated or had their death sentences vacated. In each, Duncan was found ineffective, according to legal records.
The convictions were vacated after new probes found key witness testimony in each case unreliable, and one got undisclosed money […] The post Jabar Walker, Wayne Gardine exonerated after decades ...
DNA tests exonerated him in 2003 and identified the real perpetrator Craig Gonser who could not be charged because the Statute of Limitations time had expired. In an unrelated incident, Gonser was found guilty of an indecent exposure charge and sentenced to 10–25 years (Michigan.gov/otis)
In 2021, when Mr Solorio was around the age of 42 and spending over two decades in prison, his attorney, Ellen Eggers, submitted an innocence claim to the CIU and the Northern California Innocence ...