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29 Mar 2012, 8:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“Most prosecutorial misconduct is not intentional, but we know from John Thompson’s and Michael Morton’s cases that when it happens, the consequences can be devastating,” said Cookie Ridolfi, professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and Executive Director of the Northern California Innocence Project and the Veritas Initiative. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 5:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  I know it actually has some very heavy hitters coming including John Thompson himself the named Plaintiff in the case and Michael Morton who was on 60 Minutes just Sunday night, but who else is going to be there and what are the different folks bring to the table? [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 9:00 am by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
The panel took place at the University of Virginia last month; along with White, it featured John Witt (Yale), Fred Konefsky (SUNY-Buffalo), and me.Q: Some visible legal historians derive their visibility in part from being identified with a particular approach to the field--Willard Hurst, Morton Horwitz, and Lawrence Friedman come to mind. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 3:50 pm
" Watch 60 Minute correspondent Lara Logan and producers Andy Court and Anya Bourg discuss their interview with Morton on 60 Minutes Overtime: Morton, along with death-row exoneree John Thompson, will participate in a panel discussion on prosecutorial oversight at the University of Texas Law School in Austin this Thursday. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 5:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Once again, congrats to him and everyone involved over the years in fighting the Williamson County DA's office to free him.RELATED: Reacting to the story, Wilco Watchdog says that "Ken Anderson put Morton in prison and John Bradley kept him there. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 4:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The TV news show 60 Minutes will broadcast a segment about Michael Morton's exoneration and the struggle to hold Williamson County prosecutors accountable through a court of inquiry this Sunday, March 25 (6:00-7:00 PM, CT) on CBS.Relatedly, the blog Wilco Watchdog has been diligently chronicling Williamson County DA John Bradley's re-election foibles, including a recent rumpus with a local police union that endorsed his opponent and accused Bradley of misrepresenting… [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 7:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Since ICE Director John Morton's memo last June instructing employees to use greater discretion, ICE agents have filed about 150 detainers on Class C offenders.There are lots of case studies and other detail from the institutional players in the lengthy story, which will interest anyone interested in the day to day functioning of county jails. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 9:13 pm by Susan I. Nelson
Since ICE Director John Morton's memo last June instructing employees to use greater discretion, ICE agents have filed about 150 detainers on Class C offenders. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 8:35 am by Steve Hall
" John Raley, the Houston lawyer who has worked for eight years on Michael Morton's case, said, "I am confident Mr. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 6:00 am by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Ted White is perhaps best known as a biographer of esteemed jurists--Marshall, Holmes and Warren. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 6:53 am by Matthew Kolken
On March 8, 2012, ICE Director John Morton spoke before the House appropriations subcommittee on homeland security where he announced, among other things, that only 1% of all pending deportation cases reviewed have received a favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 4:41 pm by Charles Miller
John Morton, the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security will be the keynote speaker for the Stanford Law School Worksite Immigration Compliance Symposium on April 20, 2012. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 8:40 am by Rick St. Hilaire
Whatever issue prevents ICE from doing its job to investigate and prepare cases for presentation to a federal grand jury and subsequent criminal prosecution must be resolved.ICE Director John Morton is right to note “the exceptional investigative work HSI is doing to stop the pilfering and illicit trading of precious art and antiquities from around the world. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 9:06 am by Zoe Tillman
Associate Judges Stephen Glickman and Phyllis Thompson, and Senior Judge John Steadman heard the case. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 2:51 pm by johntfloyd
Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, who has never been a champion of seeing innocent men freed, fought tooth ‘n nail to keep the DNA evidence in Morton’s case from being tested, despite the that the district attorney’s files contained compelling evidence beyond the DNA evidence that Morton was innocent. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 5:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Gerry Goldstein, Michael Morton, John Raley and Barry Scheck, via APLast week, Texas Supreme Court Justice Wallace Jefferson named the judge in the Micheal Morton "court of inquiry" - fellow black Republican state District Judge Louis Sturns of Tarrant County. [read post]