Jamaican-born Eric Tolliver is nearing the end of his 33-year prison sentence in New York, but what waits for him on the other side might be worse: deportation to his home country, where many want him dead.
Jamaican-born Eric Tolliver is nearing the end of his 33-year prison sentence in New York, but what waits for him on the other side might be worse: deportation to his home country, where many want him dead.
A federal jury on Wednesday awarded $80 million to the family of a Buffalo, New York, man who spent 27 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a 1976 murder — the largest wrongful conviction jury verdict awarded to a single person in U.S. history, attorneys said.
As noncitizen families face a heightened threat of detention and deportation, a legal process originally crafted during the AIDS crisis to keep children in the care of trusted adults during an abrupt separation has taken on new urgency.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case exploring the limits of the "protective sweep doctrine," which allows law enforcement officers to conduct limited warrantless searches of homes they have lawfully entered.
As the Trump administration carries out a mass deportation campaign across the country, immigration attorneys faced with heavy demand and changing norms are feeling the impact of burnout and stress on their practices and emotions, they told Law360.
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a 10th-grade student from Venezuela who was arrested last month at an immigration check-in, finding that his due process rights were violated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A Brooklyn man who was wrongfully incarcerated for one year after being railroaded by a crooked murderous cop has filed a proposed federal class action against the city of New York on behalf of himself and 134 other people whose convictions were overturned after the former officer's misconduct came to light.
The city of Detroit has asked a Michigan federal judge to toss a lawsuit asking the court to force its City Council to approve an $8 million settlement with a man who was wrongfully accused of double murder in the 1990s.
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the dismissal Tuesday of a proposed class action brought by Alabama residents who alleged they were wrongfully prosecuted for unpaid garbage collection fees, saying their complaint didn't allege a racketeering conspiracy between a city and its contractor led to criminal charges.
A Connecticut man convicted of murdering and robbing two women in 2007 to support a drug habit should have been afforded a hearing concerning his motion to dismiss his attorney before his habeas petition was denied, the state's appellate court announced Friday.
A Massachusetts law intended to give defendants acquitted of criminal charges a fresh start by automatically sealing a court's record does not prevent them or their attorneys from accessing the files, the state's high court ruled on Tuesday.
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a North Carolina man's convictions for child sexual abuse images, rejecting his claim that a detective omitted key information in a search warrant request that led to the discovery of the abuse materials.
Recent headlines reveal persistent gaps in oversight and protection for vulnerable residents in long-term care, but prosecution of these cases is often stymied by numerous challenges that will require a comprehensive overhaul of regulatory, legal and financial structures to address, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University.
Missed court hearings are costly for the legal system and can have potentially devastating consequences for individuals, but text, email and mail reminders offer a straightforward, affordable and evidence-based tool to boost appearance rates, says Anne Stotler at ideas42.
A recent Board of Immigration Appeals decision permitting immigration judges to dismiss asylum applications without notice or evidentiary hearings adopts the civil court's summary judgment mechanism without the procedural protections that make summary judgment fair, says Georgianna Pisano Goetz at GHIRP.
