March 27, 2015
A poignant case study of humility. The ABA reports, “Prosecutor: I was ‘arrogant, judgmental, narcissistic’ in capital prosecution of now-exonerated man.“
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News that Fits
March 19, 2015
As fans complete their March Madness bracket sheets for their office pools, many will wonder, if only fleetingly, is this legal? While we will not opine on the legality of such endeavors in this post, we draw your attention to at least one prosecutor’s office that thinks otherwise. Fox News reports that a New Jersey man faces criminal prosecution after the pool he managed grew to an $837,000 pot and payouts were being made to the Genovese crime family. It seems the Know Your Customer rules apply to those running sports brackets as well as banks.
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March 2, 2015
The Washington Post reports that the District of Columbia is to pay $9.2 million to a man wrongfully convicted of rape and robbery who spent more than 22 years in prison. According to the Post, Kirk L. Odom, 52, is one of five D.C. men convicted of rape or murder whose charges have been vacated since 2009 because they were based on erroneous forensics and testimony by an elite unit of FBI hair experts.
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February 13, 2015
Brooklyn, New York
Grand Jury Indicts Officer for Death of Man in Hallway
Two months after a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict an officer for the chokehold death of Eric Garner, which was recorded on video, a Brooklyn grand jury charged an officer with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other offenses for the single shot fired in a pitch-dark hallway that killed Akai Gurley.
