The California Supreme Court reversed Miguel Bacigalupo’s death sentence Monday finding that the prosecution failed to turn over evidence that would probably have led to a sentence of life-without-parole. Bacigalupo was convicted of the 1983 murders of two brothers in…
Dennis Maher spent over 19 years in prison before he was exonerated in 2003 of two rapes. It took another nine years for his record to be completely expunged. Last month, Maher’s name was finally cleared. Maher was exonerated in…
Power Point slides now available from the presentations of John Tomaszewski and Fracoise Gilbert on August 24, 2012 John Tomaszewski, General Counsel, TRUSTe, Francoise Gilbert, Managing Director, IT Law Group. Not able to join us last Friday? Click here for…
The Honorable Otis D. Wright, II, United States District Judge, for the Central District of California in Los Angeles is accepting applications for a SPRING semester externship. This is a full time, 40 hour a week, non paid position. Externship…
August 26, 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law when Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified its ratification. The Amendment provides: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be…
LexisNexis ebooks are now available from the Amazon Kindle Store. Titles include the "Understanding" and the "Question and Answer" exam prep series. List of titles available via Amazon – Amazon Kindle Store Full catalog of titles – LexisNexis
The High Tech Law Institute of Santa Clara Law welcomes Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill to three separate events on September 19 and 20, in San Francisco and on the Santa Clara University campus. Commissioner Brill is visiting the…
John Grega, 50, walked out of a Vermont prison Wednesday after spending 18 years in prison for a murder he always said he didn’t commit. Grega was convicted in 1995 of murdering his wife, Christine, but recently, new DNA evidence…
Join SIPLA for its first High Tech Tuesday Event Prof. Eric Goldman, Director of the High Tech Law Institute, will provide an overview of HTLI, and how to become connected to Santa Clara Law’s high tech law community. Tuesday, August…
K’vaughn Hines, 19, was charged with rape in January and spent more than four months behind bars before a DNA test exonerated him. His attorney, James Shalleck, told the Maryland Gazette, “This is a case of an example of why…