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28 Jan 2012, 4:30 pm
Read background on Clarence Elkins' incredible fight for justice. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 5:50 pm
TalkLeft called attention to Clarence Elkins's wrongful conviction in 2005, while he was still serving time for a rape and murder he didn't commit. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 4:03 am by Edith Roberts
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a new display about the court alongside the late justice Thurgood Marshall. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 12:45 pm
Julie Rea, of Illinois, describes being tormented by an audio cassette of a women screaming; Nick Yarris, of Pennsylvania's death row, tells of his own suicide attempt during his 23 years in solitary confinement; and Clarence Elkins describes being numb while being released because he had endured three months of solitary confinement just before his exoneration.Read their testimony.For more about the Senate Judiciary hearing. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 1:28 pm by Adam Feldman
Recently I had one such interaction with John Elwood of Vinson & Elkins. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 3:38 am
The fact that this was pretty much exactly what happened in Clarence Elkins' case figured prominently in the court's reasoning. [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 12:16 pm
The program rejects almost half of the requests for help it receives, and will not advocate for an inmate "unless we really believe they are innocent," says academic director Jenny Carroll.The Project helped free Clarence Elkins, a Mansfield Correctional Institution inmate, in 2005, six years after the Magnolia-area man was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering his mother-in-law and raping and assaulting a 6-year-old niece.We don't know if Keith is… [read post]
20 Jul 2018, 8:47 am by Emma Zack
The stories included are: Rickey Jackson, who was wrongly convicted of murder, sentenced to death and incarcerated for 40 years before being exonerated; Clarence Elkins, who spent 7.5 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of rape and murder; Nancy Smith, who was wrongly incarcerated for 15 years; and the East Cleveland 3 — Derrick Wheatt, Laurese Glover and Eugene Johnson — who each spent 20 years in prison for a crime they did not commit. [read post]
31 May 2007, 12:49 am
But for every story like Kathleen Ham's there is a story like Clarence Elkins'. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 4:07 am by Edith Roberts
” At Think Progress, Ian Millhiser argues that despite “his professed admiration for Justice Scalia, Gorsuch’s record is more consistent with Scalia’s much more conservative former colleague, Justice Clarence Thomas. [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 12:02 am
Vinson & Elkins Unveils Abu Dhabi Launch Legal Week Texas-based giant Vinson & Elkins has expanded its presence in the Middle East with the opening of a new office in Abu Dhabi. [read post]
12 Nov 2017, 6:29 pm by Jeff Gamso
  Clarence Elkins and Dean Gillespie get special treatment too because, well, Mark and the Ohio Innocence Project freed them. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 4:46 am by Edith Roberts
” In Vinson & Elkins’ Lincoln’s Law Blog, Ralph Mayrell and Christina Ferma highlight a False Claims Act case in which the justices called for the views of the solicitor general on Monday. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 9:20 am by Steve Hall
Other Ohioans freed in the past decade by DNA evidence - Walter Smith, Clarence Elkins and Danny Brown - also joined the governor. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 8:03 pm by Jeff Gamso
  The DNA proved it, but Elkins was convicted spent years in prison. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 2:48 pm by John Elwood
We’ll see whether this becomes the first gun-rights case the court takes up in many years or whether the Second Amendment remains (in Justice Clarence Thomas’ words) “a disfavored right in this Court. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 7:43 am by John Elwood
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito wrote separately to note their understanding that in “vacating the decision below, the Court says nothing about whether Booth was correctly decided or whether Payne swept away its analytical foundations. [read post]