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• August 21, 2026

  Hogan Lovells Helps Advance Gene Therapy For Rare Disease

  Hogan Lovells Cadwalader partner Blake Wilson found himself scrolling through LinkedIn one day, when a post caught his eye that would spark a multiyear pro bono effort and lead to a breakthrough treatment for a rare and fatal disorder affecting children.

• August 21, 2026

  DNA Can Prove Your Innocence — If They Let You Test It

  Since the mid-1980s, DNA testing has exonerated hundreds of wrongfully convicted people and reshaped the criminal justice system. Rodney Reed's decades-long unsuccessful effort to test the belt prosecutors say he used to kill a woman, however, shows how difficult access to post-conviction DNA testing can be, even for prisoners with credible innocence claims.

• August 21, 2026

  NJ Fingerprint Ruling Shows Forensic Reliability Isn't Static

  The New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent State v. Lee decision, holding that developments in forensic science warranted a renewed assessment of fingerprint evidence, reaffirmed the trial judge's role as gatekeeper and underscored that the admissibility of expert testimony is an ongoing inquiry, not a one-time determination, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

• August 21, 2026

  Judge's Job Bid Sinks Conn. Atty's Homicide Conviction

  Former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. is entitled to a new manslaughter trial because the presiding judge at his original trial "created an appearance of a lack of impartiality" when he did not disclose to the parties that he had applied for an oversight job with the state prosecutor's office, an appeals court ruled Friday.

• August 20, 2026

  Ex-Michigan Judge To Lead Macomb Conviction Integrity Unit

  Former Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Mary Chrzanowski will step into a new role as the chief of the Macomb County Prosecutor's Conviction Integrity Unit at the end of the month, the county prosecutor's office said Thursday.

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