Domonique Moore and Cedric Warren Sue Kansas City, Kansas Police for Over 15 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment
Named 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…
Read articleIn California’s Largest-Ever Wrongful Conviction Settlement, the City of Inglewood Pays a Record-Breaking $25 Million to Exoneree Maurice Hastings
Inglewood Police Department knowingly put an innocent man behind bars for more than 38 years while the real killer went free [Inglewood, CA] — With a trial date approaching this month, the City of Inglewood agreed to pay a record $25 million to settle a wrongful conviction lawsuit brought by exoneree Maurice Hastings, the national…
Read articleNSBHF Brings Lawsuit on Behalf of Man Killed in BOP Custody
The national civil rights law firm Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger, LLP (NSBHF), together with co-counsel Kaufman Lieb Lebowitz & Frick LLP (KLLF), Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin LLP, and Levy Firestone Muse LLP, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the Estate of David Blakeney and his mother Ginetta…
Read articleRicky Kidd receives $14 million settlement in wrongful conviction case against Kansas City, Missouri detectives
(KANSAS CITY, MO) The Kansas City, Missouri Board of Police Commissioners on April 29th, 2025 approved a $14 million settlement in the wrongful conviction case of Ricky Kidd, who spent over 23 years wrongfully incarcerated for a 1996 double homicide he did not commit. Mr. Kidd was exonerated in 2019. In 2021, the law firms…
Read articleNSBHF Joins Amicus Briefs to Support Law Firms Facing Unlawful Executive Orders
NSBHF joined amicus briefs supporting Jenner & Block and WilmerHale, and now Susman & Godfrey, as those firms challenge the White House’s unlawful Executive Orders targeting them and flouting the basic principles that underlie our profession. You can read each brief together with the appendix noting the firms that signed on below. Jenner & Block …
Read articleMarvin Roberts of Fairbanks Four Vindicated by Record-Breaking $11.5M Settlement
Roberts Spent Nearly 18 Years in Prison for a Murder He Didn’t Commit, Due to Corruption, Misconduct and Cover-Ups by Fairbanks Officials (Fairbanks, AK) — Marvin Roberts, who is Alaska Native, spent nearly 18 years wrongly incarcerated for a crime he did not commit: the brutal 1997 murder of John Hartman, a white 15-year-old in Fairbanks, Alaska.…
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