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15 May 2012, 10:45 am
This is a reversal for the prosecutor's office, which had threatened to retry Bennie Starks on the charges even though multiple rounds of DNA testing definitively excluded him as the perpetrator of the rape. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 1:50 pm
Join us in calling on Michael Waller for Bennie Starks' full exoneration. [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 4:15 pm
One month after prosecutors in Lake County, Illinois, dismissed rape charges against Bennie Starks, appeals judges ordered prosecutors to address his request to dismiss a battery charge related to the same incident. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 3:20 pm
Bennie Starks' case was one of the first that I took on as an Innocence Project Staff Attorney in 2000. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 12:30 pm
Write the Lake County State's Attorney's Office and ask them to vacate the battery charge against Bennie Starks. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 2:45 pm
Bennie Starks spent more than two decades in prison for a rape before appeals judges ordered a new trial based on semen evidence that did not match Starks. [read post]
17 May 2012, 1:40 pm
Here's this week's round up of forensic news: Illinois prosecutors have dropped rape charges against Bennie Starks, who spent 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 10:33 am
Two of these men, Juan Rivera and Bennie Starks, who spent years in prison, were present in the courtroom on Monday. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 9:36 am by Steven Drizin
 Although Lake County prosecutors have ignored DNA results in three cases  -- Juan Rivera, Bennie Starks, and Jerry Hobbs -- Mermel's public comments in the wake of DNA evidence in Hobbs's case were the most bizarre I had heard until last week. [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 11:59 am
 But the case that immediately came to my mind when I first read this opinion was Bennis -- a Supreme Court opinion that Judge Kozinski's opinion doesn't (I think) mention at all. [read post]
9 Jun 2022, 7:18 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
See the PBS News Hour for analysis, commentary Washington Post – Officer gives chilling account of ‘war scene’ Top Trump advisers did not believe election fraud claims had merit, new testimony shows From the Archives The Attack: Before, During and After By Washington Post Staff New York Times – Graphic Footage and Stark Testimony Show Depth of Jan. 6 Attack Trump ‘Lit the Flame’ for the Riot, Cheney Says – The House panel’s leaders,… [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 12:04 pm by Katherine Pompilio
And Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said that both received large bitcoin donations that the FBI is investigating “to assess whether the money was linked to the Capitol attack or otherwise used to fund illegal acts. [read post]
7 Apr 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 1933 the young producer and aspiring impresario John Hammond heard her sing in Harlem and convinced Benny Goodman to make a record with her. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 3:12 am by Steve Lubet
The contrast between that unprecedented violence and this unprecedented political cooperation is stark. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 11:13 pm
"I thought there may have been a problem of some sort," said Reiter, who says the Department of Corrections cruelly botched the execution of Bennie Demps on June 7 while struggling to find a vein. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 4:42 am by Emma Snell
  A federal grand jury has indicted a Pennsylvania man for threatening to kill Jan. 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) in a letter sent to his Capitol office last week. [read post]
6 Sep 2022, 9:50 am by Alicia Maule
  Faulty Forensic Science This case is a stark example of how faulty forensic evidence can lead to wrongful conviction. [read post]