Verdict Comes After Jury Finds the City of New Haven and Individual New Haven Police Department Officers Liable for Putting an Innocent Man in Prison for 21 Years (Hartford, CT) After a month-long trial in the District of Connecticut, a jury has awarded Morant $38,000,000, the national civil rights firm Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger,…
Read articleSettlement Comes After Attorneys Uncovered Damning Evidence of a Frame-up That Put an Innocent Man Behind Bars for 33 Years (BALDWIN PARK, CA) The City of Baldwin Park has agreed to pay $19.1 million to settle a wrongful conviction lawsuit brought by exoneree Daniel Saldaña, the national civil rights firm Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann &…
Read articleNamed defendants in federal lawsuits include the estate of notoriously corrupt Police Captain Roger Golubski, as well as police responsible for fabricating a false eyewitness identification and hiding evidence (KANSAS CITY, KANSAS) The national civil rights law firm Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger, LLP (NSBHF), and the local firm Morgan Pilate LLP and national firm Bryan…
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Two men who were wrongfully convicted of murder as teens in 1997 and exonerated after 23 years behind bars will share a $24 million settlement from Los Angeles County, The Los Angeles Times reported. “The lies behind John Klene and Ed Dumbrique’s decades-long wrongful imprisonment were exposed before their criminal trial began when a witness described how…
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