Posts Tagged ‘wrongfully’

Report: Georgia Wrongfully Purged 200,000 Voters

Above photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images. A seven-year investigation of voter suppression in Georgia has found that the state likely removed 200,000 voters from its rolls who were, in fact, eligible to vote. The voters whose registrations were removed were also overwhelmingly concentrated in the counties comprising the Atlanta Metro area, according to initial findings released on […]

City Seeking $31 Million Settlement With Wrongfully Convicted ‘Englewood Four’

CHICAGO — Aldermen were scheduled to vote next week on a $31 million settlement with the “Englewood Four,” who spent years in prison for rape and murder before DNA evidence pointed to a different suspect. Six years ago, a Cook County judge threw out the convictions of Terrill Swift, Vincent Thames, Michael Saunders, and Harold […]

Wrongfully Convicted Man in Fatal Brooklyn Shooting Settles With City For $9.5M

A wrongfully convicted man is settling his case against New York City for $9.5 million. Ruddy Quezada — who lived through 24 years in lock up for a fatal Brooklyn shooting he said he had no part in — reached a deal on Thursday, according to Brooklyn Federal Court papers. In April, Quezada settled a […]

Kansas City Teen Wrongfully Arrested And Locked Up For Three Weeks Sues KCPD

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Florida father wrongfully convicted, jailed 20 years for killing children, baby-sitter admitted to murder

     At daybreak on Oct. 25, 1967, Annie Mae Richardson, of Arcadia, Fla., got up to prepare the day’s meals for her husband and seven children. Lunch was rice and beans for the kids and fried chicken for herself and her husband, James. The couple would brown bag it to work, which was picking oranges. […]

Canadian Academic Wrongfully Accused of Terrorism: Support Dr. Hassan Diab’s Right to Come Home

ALERT! Everyone who lives in these states needs to contact their governor and representatives to encourage this action to stop Obama’s invasion…

Israel’s Extrajudicial Assassinations Include Children: 41 Palestinian Children Killed Since October 1

Defense for Children International (DCI), Palestine Branch, has reported that Israeli soldiers have killed 41 children in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, since the current uprising began in Palestine, on October 1, 2015. Sixteen of the slain children were killed this year. The IMEMC added the name of the child who was […]

Sheikh Miskeen: Syrian Army’s Most Important Southern Front Victory to Date ~ [Report by RIA Novosti correspondent, Videos]

Syrian Free Press (SputnikNews-RIA Novosti) ~ Earlier this week, the Syrian army, supported by Russian military aviation and pro-government militia, successfully liberated the strategic southern Syrian border town of Sheikh Miskeen. The town’s capture, a Russian reporter embedded on the ground suggests, is possibly the most important victory on the southern front to date. The […]

Student who was wrongfully arrested on suspicion of being a terrorist is awarded £20,000 by police

  Mail Online September 15, 2011 A student who was arrested under the Terrorism Act and kept in custody for six days has been awarded £20,000 compensation by the police. Rizwaan Sabir, 22, who was studying for a master’s at Nottingham University, was arrested after downloading a terrorist manual for his research on al Qaeda. […]

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