A federal judge reinstates a $9 million award to exonoree George Rodriguez who was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years http://bit.ly/uh41ED
A federal judge reinstates a $9 million award to exonoree George Rodriguez who was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years http://bit.ly/uh41ED
Perhaps the single most frequent cause of wrongful convictions occurs when a client’s trial attorney fails to provide effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Sometimes the failure is inadvertent, or due…
NCIP’s Cookie Ridolfi was quoted in a Washington Post article about Prosecutorial Misconduct and the Pros Oversight Tour:http://wapo.st/ssIFvq
See video from yesterday’s press conference announcing the "Proseutorial Oversight" tour where Cookie spoke about the impact of NCIP’s Veritas research in California: www.prosecutorialoversight.org/
USA Today wrote a story about the nationwide "Prosecutorial Oversight" tour. Click on the link for the full article: content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/10/exoneree-to-advocate-nationally-against-prosecutorial-misconduct/1
If DOMA is repealed or ruled unconstitutional, then same-sex marriages will have to be given the same effect as opposite sex marriages. But what about registered same sex couples in those states that recognize the relationship as a marital equivalent,…
The recently issued IRS guidance for community property partners and same-sex spouses in California (and partners in Washington and Nevada) clarified an important substantive question that affects couples in all 16 jurisdictions where same-sex relationships are recognized. If under state…
This is not a tax case. It is a case involving a same-sex couple and their adoption, in New York, of a child who had been born in Louisiana. The couple requested that the child’s Louisiana birth certificate be changed…
In the past few weeks, the IRS has issued two pronouncements on this question, both concluding that if the receipts are community income under the applicable state law then they will be taxed as community income at the federal level.…
SJMN Opinion piece: NCIP Executive Director Cookie Ridolf & Visiting Researcher Maurice Possley discuss the lack of reporting of prosecutorial misconduct in California. Click on the link for the full article: www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19049045