What would I like for my birthday? How about an apology from the IRS about how it has been treating same-sex couples in community property states this tax season? Voila! It came — just one day after my real birthday.…
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What would I like for my birthday? How about an apology from the IRS about how it has been treating same-sex couples in community property states this tax season? Voila! It came — just one day after my real birthday.…
The distinguished law firm of Cooley LLP will receive the Pro Bono Award on June 2 at NCIP’s Justice for All awards dinner. Lawyers from this firm have devoted thousands of hours and written amicus briefs to help free the…
Last March (2010) at the Estate and Gift Tax Conference of the Taxation Section of the California State Bar, an IRS representative reported that the IRS was launching a “compliance initiative” intended to uncover unreported gifts of real estate. While…
2010 is the first year that registered or married same-sex couples in California, Washington, and Nevada were expected to file single returns splitting all income, including income from wages and from self-employment. Most couples and tax return preparers that I…
John Thompson, former Death Row inmate now exonerated after 18 years behind bars in Louisiana, will receive the Freedom Award on June 2 at NCIP’s Justice For All Dinner. Thompson has created Resurrection After Exoneration, a non-profit organization dedicated to…
NBC Bay Area writes about NCIP’s two recent exonerations. Click on the link for more details. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/20-Years-Later-2-Innocent-Killers-Taste-Freedom.html
John Hollway, author of “Killing Time: an 18-year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom” is accepting the NCIP’s Media Award on June 2 at the NCIP’s Justice For All Dinner. Hollway’s outstanding book chronicles the astonishing story of how prosecutorial…
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens criticized the recent Connick v. Thompson decision which took a $14 million dollar judgment away from John Thompson, a victim of wrongful conviction and prosecutorial misconduct. John Thompson will be receiving the Freedom…
The Hammerschmidt Broughton Law Corporation saluted the Innocence Network for securing 29 exonerations in 2010. NCIP and the Armando Ortiz case were specifically mentioned by Mark Broughton who said, "I can’t overstate how much I admire and respect them and…
More Great News! Juliette Lewis, the Academy Award-nominated actress who played Roseanna Perry in "Conviction," will be presenting an award at the Justice for All awards dinner! http://www.justiceforalldinner.com/.