Kudos to new SF Police Chief Greg Suhr who announced their adoption of sequential lineups – in which the suspects are shown to the witness one at a time, as opposed to all at once – to reduce mistaken eyewitness…
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Kudos to new SF Police Chief Greg Suhr who announced their adoption of sequential lineups – in which the suspects are shown to the witness one at a time, as opposed to all at once – to reduce mistaken eyewitness…
LA Times piece on NCIP client George Souliotes, who won the right to show a judge in January that his conviction was based on bad science. Stay tuned. www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fatal-fire-20111126,0,3192738.story
At the end of today’s hearing, the judge wished Obie well, sharing a message with him from his own father: “Never, ever, ever give up.”
Big News! Charges Dismissed! LA County DA said that the State would not seek to bring Obie Anthony to trial again and the court dismissed the charges. Obie’s 17-year ordeal has ended and he can begin re-building his life.
Rep. Jim McDermott just introduced a new Estate Tax Bill that would return the estate tax exemption to $1.0 million and restore the pre-20001 progressive rate structure with a top rate of 55%. This bill makes sense as a fair…
Morton was exonerated of his wife’s murder through DNA evidence in October after spending nearly 25 years in prison. (Read the full story here.) Anderson acknowledged, “If we get it wrong, there’s consequences and it affects a lot of people.”…
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This is the first part in a series airing on 89.3 KPCC about NCIP exoneree Obie Anthony and his life before and after prison, including words from NCIP attorney Paige Kaneb. Stay tuned for more in the series as they…
Are the expenses incurred for gender reassignement surgery deductible medical expenses under §213 of the Internal Revenue Code or are they nondeductible expenses for cosmetic surgery? Rhiannon O’Donnabhain thought so and so she deducted them in 2001. The IRS denied…
NCIP’s Linda Starr was on the news last night discussing client Franky Carrillo’s case and how faulty eyewitness identification played into his wrongful conviction. She discussed some best practices which NCIP hopes CA law enforcement agencies will adopt. Watch…