Criminal Law

Correct a Terrible Mistake

Posted on February 18, 2009
From the Standdown Blog :Correct a Terrible MistakeThat's the title of a Baltimore Sun OpEd by former Maryland Speaker of the House Casper Taylor. LINKIn 28 years in the Maryland House of Delegates, nine as speaker, I cast thousands of votes. I have few regrets...

Osborne : A case we`re watching

Posted on February 18, 2009
From the blog of The Innocence Project of Florida :Wednesday, February 18, 2009Osborne: A case we're watching Arguments are set to begin in early March in the case of District Attorney?s Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne. This summary of the case comes from SCOTUSblog...

Innocence Project of Florida Plans to Test Tompkins Evidence

Posted on February 16, 2009
Frank Lee SmithInnocence Project of Florida,Inc.1100 East Park Avenue,Tallahassee, FL 32301Telephone 850.561.6767Fax 850.561.5077For Immediate ReleasePRESS RELEASEFebruary 16, 2009Contacts:Seth Miller, Esq.: 202.341.2127Innocence Project of Florida Plans to Test Tompkins EvidenceTompkins could be First Ever Executed Man to be Proven InnocentToday the Innocence Project of Florida (IPF) reiterated its intent to test the remaining DNA evidence in the case of Wayne Tompkins...

National Academy of Sciences blasts Nation`s Crime Labs

Posted on February 14, 2009
Jimmy AtesFrom the blog of the Innocence Project of Florida :A report being released this month by the National Academy of Sciences is expected to be "a sweeping critique of many forensic methods that the police and prosecutors rely on," according to The New York Times last week...

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Man exonerated by DNA is freed after 24 years - IN FLORIDA

Posted on February 10, 2009
Man exonerated by DNA is freed after 24 yearsAccused of robbery, rape, Floridian is glad for day ?a long time coming?Alan Crotzer throws his arms in the air Monday as he leaves the Hillsborough County Courthouse in Tampa, Fla. updated 7:43 p.m. ET Jan...

NOTICE OF APPEAL - WAYNE TOMPKINS

Posted on February 10, 2009
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/WayneTompkins/Filed_02-10-2009_Notice_Of_Appeal.pdfIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDACASE NO. 84-CF-010538 STATE OF FLORIDA,Plaintiff,v. WAYNE TOMPKINS, Defendant...

Former Tampa man close to execution for killing teenager

Posted on February 10, 2009
Marty McClain and Juan MelendezFormer Tampa man close to execution for killing teenagerBy Colleen Jenkins, Times Staff Writerhttp://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/article974717.ecePosted: Feb 10, 2009 01:19 PMTAMPA ? After 23 years on death row, Wayne Tompkins has a day to live...

Letter from Florida Innocence Project to Governor Crist - the case of Wayne Tompkins

Posted on February 10, 2009
Letter from Florida Innocence Project to Governor Crist - the case of Wayne TompkinsThe letter from Florida Innocence Project to Governor Crist - the case of Wayne Tompkinshttp://www.oranous.com/innocence/WayneTompkins/crist_letter_tompkins_21009.pdf

Pressrelease from Florida Innocence Project - Wayne Tompkins

Posted on February 10, 2009
Pressrelease from Florida Innocence Project - Wayne Tompkinshttp://floridainnocence.org/pdf/tompkins_release_21009.pdfInnocence Project of Florida, Inc.1100 East Park Avenue,Tallahassee, FL 32301Telephone 850.561.6767Fax 850.561.5077For Immediate ReleasePRESS RELEASEFebruary 10, 2009Contacts:Seth Miller, Esq...

PETITION SEEKING TO INVOKE THIS COURT'S ALL WRITS JURISDICTION AND APPLY TO THIS COURT FOR A STAY OF EXECUTION

Posted on February 09, 2009
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/WayneTompkins/Filed_02-09-2009_Petition.pdfIN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA WAYNE TOMPKINS, Petitioner, v. CASE NO. SC09-___ BILL McCOLLUM,Attorney General of theState of Florida, and, WALTER A. McNEIL,Secretary,Department of Corrections,State of Florida, Respondents...

Tompkins Asks Justices For Stay Of Execution

Posted on February 09, 2009
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/feb/09/tompkins-asks-justices-stay-execution/ Tompkins Asks Justices For Stay Of Execution The Associated Press Published: February 9, 2009 Wayne Tompkins TALLAHASSEE - A death row inmate wants the Florida Supreme Court to stay his execution...

Motion for DNA testing - Wayne Tompkins

Posted on February 08, 2009
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/tompkins/Tompkins-CC-MotionForDNA12-1-08.pdfIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THETHIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT,IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGHCOUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 84-CF-010538STATE OF FLORIDA, Plaintiff, v.WAYNE TOMPKINS,Defendant...

Fla. man facing execution appeals in federal court

Posted on February 08, 2009
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Execution Set Wednesday

Posted on February 08, 2009
By VALERIE KALFRIN vkalfrin@tampatrib.com Published: February 8, 2009 TAMPA - Lisa DeCarr had a headache and didn't want to go to school. The 15-year-old asked her mother if she could stay home that Thursday. Her mother, Barbara DeCarr, agreed. It was the last time DeCarr saw her daughter alive...

STATUS REPORT FROM WAYNE TOMPKINS COUNSEL

Posted on February 06, 2009
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDAWAYNE TOMPKINS, Appellantv. CASE NO. 67974STATE OF FLORIDAAppellee. ________________________/STATUS REPORT FROM WAYNE TOMPKINS= COUNSEL Yesterday, February 3, 2009, counsel for WAYNE TOMPKINS was advised that thisCourt had directed a status report to be filed...

We ask for your help to save an innocent man's life. Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed on January 27, 2009 by the State of Texas

Posted on January 01, 2009
Dear Friends & fellow Abolitionists in the U.S.,We'd like to ask for your help to save an innocent man's life. LarrySwearingen is scheduled to be executed on January 27, 2009 by the Stateof Texas despite the fact that he didn't kill anyone.Larry is blessed by having very dear and loyal friends who helped andsupported him all through the years, unfortunately most of them are inOverseas/Europe...

Innocence Project lost funding in Madoff case

Posted on January 01, 2009
Thursday, Jan 1, 2009Posted on Thu, Jan. 01, 2009Innocence Project lost funding in Madoff caseBy MAX B. BAKERmaxbaker@star-telegram.comAfter seeing money earmarked for DNA testing get swept away in the Bernard Madoff scandal, the chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas is calling on state lawmakers to improve overall funding for agencies investigating cases of inmates who may have been wrongfully convicted...

Union urges immediate boycott following Gaza university bombing

Posted on December 30, 2008
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10075.shtmlUnion urges immediate boycott following Gaza university bombingAppeal, Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees, 30 December 2008The following appeal was issued on 29 December 2008:The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees condemns in the strongest possible terms the bombing today of the campus of the Islamic University in Gaza...

Judge Overturns Jimmy Ates? Conviction: Use of Junk Science Leads to Release - PRESSRELEASE

Posted on December 20, 2008
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2009 May Be Watershed Year for Forensics

Posted on December 16, 2008
2009 May Be Watershed Year for Forensics Nearly 20 years after DNA testing first revolutionized forensic science, we still have no national standards for many forensic disciplines and techniques that law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and juries rely on every day...

Discredited forensics may upend rulings

Posted on December 16, 2008
Discredited forensics may upend rulings By Meg Laughlin, Times Staff WriterIn print: Saturday, December 13, 2008 http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/article936409.ece Gainesville prosecutor Geoffrey Fleck has asked that Ates? murder conviction be overturned...

The Death Penalty Is Dying

Posted on December 16, 2008
The Death Penalty Is Dying By Mike Farrell, Meet the BloggersPosted on December 15, 2008, Printed on December 16, 2008http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://meetthebloggers.org/112934/ The death penalty is dying. Fewer death sentences are being pronounced and fewer are being pursued, as prosecutors find America?s juries increasingly uncomfortable with the failures in the system...

Public defender-elect fires 10 seasoned attorneys

Posted on December 01, 2008
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Federal petition filed in the innocence case of Wayne Tompkins

Posted on December 01, 2008
Federal petition in the innocence case of Wayne Tompkinshttp://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/federalpetition.pdf

Federal bench short on diversity

Posted on December 01, 2008
ALABAMA:Federal bench short on diversityOther actions that presidents take may get more attention in the shortterm, but few have more long-term implications than appointments to thefederal courts. These are lifetime appointments, and as such can continueto exercise influence decades after a president has left office...

Motion to appoint counsel in federal court - The innocence case of Wayne Tompkins

Posted on December 01, 2008
The wrong manMotion to appoint counsel in federal courthttp://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/motionappointcounsel.pdf

Gradually, most of the civilized world has

Posted on December 01, 2008
Dec. 1WEST VIRGINIA:Pro-death----Revenge mentality; Gradually, most of the civilized world hasabolished the death penalty. Conscientious people everywhere now realizethat killing prisoners is a medieval barbarism suited for dictatorships,but not for modern democracies...

Replybrief on all writs petition - the innocence case of Wayne Tompkins

Posted on December 01, 2008
http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/Filed_12-01-2008_Reply.pdfIN THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDAWAYNE TOMPKINS,Petitioner,v. CASE NO. SC08-2168BILL McCOLLUM,Attorney General of theState of Florida,and,WALTER A. McNEIL,Secretary,Department of Corrections,State of Florida,Respondents...

A state witness, a jailhouse informant, admitted to providing false testimony at Tompkins? original trial in 1985.

Posted on December 01, 2008
News - Breaking News Monday, Nov. 24, 2008 Inmate again faces execution $javascriptRequire = new miScriptScheduler(); $javascriptRequire.scriptCheck = window.mi_story_tool; $javascriptRequire.scriptPath = "http://media.bradenton.com/static/scripts/mi/pubsys/story_tools_oo...

The state response to all writs petition - Tompkins

Posted on December 01, 2008
http://www.waynetompkins.us/legal/Filed_11-25-2008_State_Response_All_Writs.pdf

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