Compensation for Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment
The next issue I aim to tackle in this blog is compensating the wrongly convicted and imprisoned. According to a survey compiled by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the...
View ArticleISSUE & BRIEF ANSWER
A legal memorandum begins with the issue, which is a generally lengthy statement that sums up all of the facts in a case while presenting the court with the main question or “issue” at hand. Here is...
View ArticleSTATEMENT OF THE FACTS
The statement of the facts in a legal memorandum aims to literally state all of the facts in the case. While the issue also included every fact, this section goes into minute detail as to what actually...
View ArticleDISCUSSION
The discussion portion of a legal memorandum is the most complex, detailing the laws and precedents that apply to the case. Since the discussion is so long, I have decided to split it into separate...
View ArticleReduced or Reversed Remedies
DISCUSSION (continued…) Reduced or Reversed Remedies In Colon v. City of New York, an appeal modified Supreme Court judgment awarding the plaintiff damages for malicious prosecution and false...
View ArticleStatistics
DISCUSSION (continued…) Statistics In the New York Law Journal, the article “Compensating the Wrongly Convicted” deals with the problems of wrongful convictions nationwide as well as the possibility of...
View ArticleCapital Punishment: Innocent on death row
On February 17, 2004, 36-year-old Cameron Todd Willingham was strapped down in an execution chamber in Texas and given a lethal injection. In 1992, he had been convicted of murdering his three young...
View ArticleWrongful Conviction Rate in U.S.
A relatively new study has predicted that there are 5,000 to 10,000 wrongful convictions per year in the United States. The conclusion of the study states that the ultimate question is whether the...
View ArticleA Summary of IRP Solutions
Gary Walker (left) and David Banks (right) are two of six executives who were convicted of conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraud in 2011. The execs have filed for an appeal based on violations of...
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