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23 Dec 2010, 10:08 pm by Bruce Korol
Interesting story in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal on Jabbar Collins - wrongfully convicted in 1995 of murdering a rabbi, Collins eventually won his freedom through perseverance and sheer determination. [read post]
11 Jul 2014, 6:10 pm by Michael Lumer
Hence, Jabbar Collins, like others (see, for instance, this post on Martin Tankleff), end up dual tracking their cases.You might think that the plaintiff's damages claims would overlap, and to some extent they do. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 7:40 am by Michael Lumer
Jabbar Collins, a man wrongly convicted by former Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes's office in 1995 for a murder he did not commit, has finally obtained the justice he was seeking. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 9:01 am by jamison
Collins’s file,” Rudin told the Wall Street Journal. [read post]
26 May 2010, 9:45 am by Russell Mace
Jabbar Collins has served fifteen (15) years in prison and could be released on bail today since the district attorney's office has admitted that evidence was withheld during his previous trial. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 5:53 pm by Michael Lumer
Whether these wrongful convictions were brought about by prosecutorial misconduct (see, generally, the Jabbar Collins case), or by morally corrupt cops like Lou Scarcella (i.e., David Ranta), to whose malfeasance Hynes's office turned a blind eye, it is evident that something was very rotten in Kings County.Recently, wrongfully convicted Jabbar Collins won a motion to compel Scarcella's deposition in his civil case, even though Scarcella was not involved… [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 5:57 pm
Whether these wrongful convictions were brought about by prosecutorial misconduct (see, generally, the Jabbar Collins case), or by morally corrupt cops like Lou Scarcella (i.e., David Ranta), to whose malfeasance Hynes's office turned a blind eye, it is evident that something was very rotten in Kings County.Recently, wrongfully convicted Jabbar Collins won a motion to compel Scarcella's deposition in his civil case, even though Scarcella was not involved… [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 3:17 am by Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma
In the Daily News yesterday, Judge Frederic Block of the Eastern District of New York — who handled the Jabbar Collins civil suit that ended in a $13 million bill to taxpayers to compensate for police misconduct in Brooklyn — urged Gov. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 6:50 pm by Michael Lumer
Recently, attorneys for Jabbar Collins were permitted to depose Hynes along a similar line. [read post]
19 Aug 2014, 7:52 pm
And compensation is what happened today in New York when Jabbar Collins (shown in the photo), a man who spent 16 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, and then spent three years in litigation against the City of New York, reached a $10,000,000 settlement. [read post]
6 Sep 2014, 8:13 pm by Michael Lumer
He paid Jabbar Collins, but that doesn't really count, he pretty much had to. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 6:47 pm
” ~ Jabbar Collins (Wall Street Journal)New York paralegal Jabbar Collins definitely did not take the traditional route to the paralegal profession. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 7:16 am by Michael Lumer
By the time he was voted out of office in 2013, his reputation was greatly tarnished, due in no small part to deeply flawed prosecutions and convictions of innocent men, such as David Ranta and Jabbar Collins. [read post]
3 Jun 2014, 8:03 am
By the time he was voted out of office in 2013, his reputation was greatly tarnished, due in no small part to deeply flawed prosecutions and convictions of innocent men, such as David Ranta and Jabbar Collins. [read post]
25 Jul 2014, 8:01 am by Michael Lumer
As a result, it is becoming increasingly common to see cases like those of David Ranta, Jabbar Collins, Roger Logan, etc., where innocent men are freed after losing many years of their lives to wrongful convictions and imprisonment. [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 10:30 am by Paul Cates
Judge Block cites the case of Jabbar Collins, who spent 16 years in prison for a 1994 Brooklyn murder he did not commit. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 10:51 am by Alicia Maule
” —Yusef Salaam, Innocence Board Member and member of the Central Park Five  Jabbar Collins’ family visiting him in prison. [read post]