Two major criminal defense lawyer groups have filed an Amici Curiae in support of Terrence Richardson, a man who has filed an appeal to his life sentence for a murder of which he was acquitted in the Virginia Supreme Court.
A Chicago lawyer representing a local woman whose newborn died three years ago in Tarrant County Jail recently won a small but important legal victory. The story starts in 2020. That’s when Fort Worth police officer David Nguyen arrested Chasity Congious, a Black mother with several diagnosed mental health
A former Detroit police detective says the department relied on untrustworthy jailhouse informants to score murder convictions in the 1990s, rewarding those inmates with “privileges."