Shawn Armbrust
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RT @MidAtlanticIP: In 1985, eight men were convicted of the brutal murder of their neighbor. Collectively, they spent over 250 years in pr….
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RT @TimesRadio: “I should not have been arrested in the first place because I’m an innocent man.". Charles Turner was one of eight men conv….
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RT @MidAtlanticIP: Yesterday @MidAtlanticIP / @GibsonDunn client David Faulkner and his co-defendant had their convictions overturned and w….
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Once again, Maryland has failed its exonerees.
It appears the bill is effectively dead. The measure that would set policy on compensating the wrongly convicted become will not become law this session.
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Finally! Thanks to the lawyers and reporters who pushed so hard and to @MarylandBPW and @GovLarryHogan for ultimately doing the right thing!@midatlanticip @BrownGoldLevy @bakerbotts @akingump @OvettaWashPost @DanRodricks.
Maryland offers about $9 million to five wrongly convicted men
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Great news from @MarylandBPW for someone who really needs it and hopefully a sign of good things to come.
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Hubert James Williams, who was wrongfully jailed for 11 years, is homeless and struggling with addiction.
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RT @MidAtlanticIP: Sometimes government officials take steps to ensure that a defendant is convicted despite weak evidence or even clear pr….
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On August 8, 1993, 23-year-old Wayne Ballard stopped at the intersection of 2nd Street and Massachusetts Avenue N.W. Another car pulled up to the driver’s side of Ballard’s car and a gunman fired...
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RT @MidAtlanticIP: Innocent defendants often make incriminating statements, deliver outright confessions, and/or plead guilty. Sometimes, y….
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Eighteen-year-old Michelle Bosko was raped and murdered in her apartment in Norfolk, Virginia, on July 7, 1997. Her husband, a sailor returning from duty at sea, found her body the next day. The...
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RT @jformanjr: For those of us who have been pointing out that ending mass incarceration requires more than relief for drug offenders, D.C.….
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The trauma caused by wrongful conviction is hard to quantify or explain, but @OvettaWashPost has done a wonderful job telling these stories. All the more reason to compensate these men now.
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One runs a nonprofit. Another is frequently homeless. The men collectively spent 120 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit.
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This is the mentality that led to the wrongful convictions of Lamar Johnson, Jerome Johnson & Clarence Shipley. If charges against them had been dropped before trial, MD wouldn’t need to compensate them now. Why not learn from errors? @QuattroneCenter
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Arguing that Baltimore prosecutors are too quick to drop cases, Gov. Larry Hogan said Wednesday that he was directing Attorney General Brian Frosh to step in and prosecute more crimes in the city. …
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Promising news from @GovLarryHogan and @MarylandBPW. Fingers crossed that these men are compensated soon! @BrownGoldLevy @OvettaWashPost @DanRodricks @kojoshow
washingtonpost.com
The men were jailed for 120 years and seek $12 million. Gov. Hogan said rules for compensating them are too vague.
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Michele Nethercott and I on Maryland’s failure to compensate 5 exonerees who have the support of prosecutors and the law on their sides. It’s time to stop delaying and act. @MarylandBPW @GovLarryHogan @BrownGoldLevy @MidAtlanticIP @OvettaWashPost @ubaltlaw
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The state has a moral obligation to help these men.
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Prosecutors agree that 5 Maryland exonerees are innocent and deserve compensation, but @MarylandBPW has sat on their claims - even as one has become homeless. Thanks to @DanRodricks for pushing them to care.
The Comptroller’s comms director got back to me today: “Comptroller Franchot agrees that the victims of these horrifying cases of injustice need to be compensated and he will be working with the Governor and Treasurer to choose the most appropriate path forward.” @baltimoresun.
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This is what happens when judges are so removed from the reality of the “justice” system they’ve helped create. We hear this in innocence cases — even when the delays are because the state hid evidence or keeps trying to block claims based on procedure.
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The conservative majority complains that capital-defense lawyers are making up claims at the last minute. It’s wrong.
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30 years after the #CentralParkFive were convicted, harsh & coercive interrogations are alive & well, especially in high-profile cases. It’s well past time for police to learn from these cases and change interrogations. @WhenTheySeeUs
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The chief judge of the Baltimore Circuit Court slammed city detectives for intimidating a suspect and compared their grueling interrogation last year to the tough-guy tactics of 1930s G-men. Circui…
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Just finished episode 1 of #WhenTheySeeUs. Gutted and wishing several SCOTUS justices would watch so they can see what it really is like when "a detective raise[s] his voice" to a 15-year-old, as Breyer so dismissively put it in Turner v. US. #CentralParkFive #AndTooManyMore.
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This. The #CentralParkFive were cleared in 2002, but the MD Court of Special Appeals proved today that courts still think confessions outweigh physical evidence & logic. Really wishing SCOTUS would have led the way in Brendan Dassey or 8th&H.
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The series illuminates how a wrongful conviction happened three decades ago and why they're still happening now.
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The powers that be in Virginia should take this advice and start learning from wrongful convictions. The AG should start by reflecting on why it opposed us in this case.
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Scott’s vindication cannot restore the years he lost but — like other exonerations — provides the opportunity to improve the system.
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RT @MidAtlanticIP: There’s a third act. Act III - innocent client is resentenced to time served and will be released in the next few days!….
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