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The article discusses President Biden's controversial decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, for offenses committed over a decade, including tax and gun charges. Democrats argue that the pardon was justified due to political motivations behind Hunter's prosecution, while Republicans criticize the unlimited scope of the pardon. The pardon has sparked debate about the integrity of the Justice Department and the use of the pardon power for political purposes. Critics view the pardon as potentially politically motivated and exploitable by former President Trump, while supporters emphasize empathy for Hunter's struggles with drug addiction. [Extracted from the article]

The article reveals the organizing by election integrity groups on the social medial platform Telegram aimed to dispute votes in Democratic areas and spread disinformation and conspiracy theories about anything that is against the victory of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump in the Novembe 2024 election. An analysis of the messages presented discusses encouragement of members to attend local election meetings, join protest rallies, make financial donations and action against election fraud.

The article discusses Lucy Letby's defense team in London, UK, seeking an appeal of her convictions after prosecution expert Dewi Evans changed his opinion on the causes of death for three babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England.

The article focuses on The New Yorker's publication of an article raising doubts about the conviction of nurse Lucy Letby in Britain, but the piece is blocked in the UK due to strict reporting restrictions on live court cases.

The article exposes a D.A. error that revealed a file on disgraced officer Louis Scarcella, shedding light on numerous wrongful convictions linked to his problematic work on homicides in 1980s and 1990s, despite his denial of wrongdoing, sparking ongoing scrutiny and calls for broader disclosure.

The article focuses on New York City agreeing to pay a record 17.5 million U.S. dollar settlement to George Bell, who spent over two decades in prison for murders in Queens that he did not commit, marking an apparent record for a wrongful conviction settlement.

The article reports that Bronx district attorney Darcel D. Clark has asked Justice Steven L. Barrett to set aside a guilty verdict against 31-year-old Steven Odiase who was convicted in the murder of 15-year-old boy Juan Jerez due to the withheld crucial evidence.

The article reports on the need to create better compensation laws for innocent prisoners in the U.S.

The article reports that the conviction of a three-year-old boy by an Egyptian military court for killing three people was called by the country as a mistake.

The article reports on the review conducted by the National Registry of Exonerations of the University of Michigan which reveals the number of people who were falsely convicted of a crime in the U.S. in 2015.

The article reports that a Scottish judicial review body has ruled that Abdel al-Megrahi, the Libyan intelligence agent serving a life sentence for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, may appeal on the grounds he was wrongfully convicted. The Criminal Cases Review Commission identified several areas "where a miscarriage of justice may have occurred." The commission's decisions are often upheld by Scottish courts.

The author reflects on the failure of the New Orleans district attorney's office under the command of former District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. to turn over various cases to defense lawyers that would have helped their clients.

The article offers news briefs related to the current events as of January 24, 2015 on topics including the legal dispute over gay marriage in Alabama, the judicial error for the conviction of a man in North Carolina and the arrest of a 19-year-old woman who tried to help the Islamic State.

The article reports on the efforts made by South Carolina judge Carmen T. Mullen of the Circuit Court, has vacated the 1944 murder conviction to a 14-year-old Black American George J. Stinney Jr., stating the prosecution has failed to safeguard Stineny constitutional rights.

The article reports on the study published in April 2014 suggesting false convictions by some 4.1% of death row defendants in the U.S. which did not surprise opponents of death penalty.

The author reflects on the by a court in Egypt on March 24, 2014 that condemned 529 Islamists over the death of a single police officer in 2013 which has been viewed by the author as miscarriage of justice.

The article reports on the analysis of the nonprofit legal policy organization Legal Action Center regarding the arrest records of 2.1 New Yorkers, which contain errors in the state in May 2013.

The article focuses on the challenges in clearing a criminal record of a wrongfully convicted person, wherein criminal records can affect several things such as in getting a license, searching for employment, and looking for a housing.

The article reports that Eric C. Wilson, sailor, who has convicted for rape charges, proved to be innocent and has been released from the prison, but he need to register as sex offender in the criminal records in the U.S.

The author reflects on the invalidation made by Italy's Court of Cassation on an appeals court's decision to release Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, who were convicted for murder in 2009, which he considers to show the appellate court's mathematical fallacy.

The article reports on the failure to object by lawyer Patricia A. Gilley on the illegal extension of his client Armarcion D. Henderson's sentence ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011. It says that some judicial errors may be solved even though lawyers failed to object since the erros are plain. According to Justice Antonin Scalia, defense lawyers must be encouraged to raise objections at trial during unsettled laws.

A yearlong investigation into a federal pension program for low-income veterans has concluded that weak oversight and unclear rules have made the system ripe for abuse, including by financial planners and lawyers who help well-off retirees qualify for benefits by transferring or hiding assets. The report by the Government Accountability Office, to be released on Wednesday, found that more than 200 firms had sprouted up across the country to help veterans ''restructure'' assets so they can appear indigent and therefore eligible for tax-free pensions, which can pay more than $20,000 a year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The power to pardon is an essential means of justice, allowing a governor to right what the law got wrong. Gov. Jerry Brown of California has been asked to commute to time served the sentence of Shirley Ree Smith, who was convicted in 1997 of killing her grandson and has already served 10 years of a 15-years-to-life sentence. We urge the governor to commute her sentence so she does not now have to return to prison as a result of a misguided Supreme Court ruling. Ms. Smith was convicted of shaking her grandson to death. When the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned her conviction in 2006, it found ''no demonstrable support'' for it. There was ''no physical evidence'' and ''no other evidence'' of the severe bleeding or swelling that are the most common signs of shaken baby syndrome. The court concluded ''there has very likely been a miscarriage of justice in this case.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Russian immigrant convicted in a callous scheme to steal the identities of three missing people, including a Ukrainian-born translator and a man whose body parts turned up in a New Jersey wilderness, was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison. The Russian immigrant, Dmitriy Yakovlev, 43, was never charged with murder. But a federal jury in Brooklyn found him guilty in March of fraud charges that said he had killed the translator and another victim before raiding their bank accounts and credit lines -- a theft totaling more than $83,000. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After making a star turn from the witness box of a Mafia murder trial last month, a former mob boss returned to the stand on Wednesday to testify again against the same man, this time in the trial's death penalty phase. And the mob boss, Joseph C. Massino, came ready to tell the jury about a proposition to kill a federal prosecutor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As one of the bed-hopping interns in the hospital soap opera ''Grey's Anatomy,'' T. R. Knight was both nebbishy and adorable, a sad-sack elf who still managed to get the girls, despite the fierce competition from his more square-jawed, bedroom-eyed colleagues. Onstage as Leo Frank, the Jewish factory superintendent wrongly accused of murdering a teenage girl in the musical ''Parade,'' Mr. Knight remains distinctly nebbishy, but the scope for adorability is severely limited. This serious-minded, somber show sets to music a true story of such unrelenting grimness that the usual audience-appealing devices of musical theater -- heart-seducing melodies, lively dancing, glowing star turns -- are deployed in modest doses. You don't want to be tapping your toes to a sorry spectacle of justice miscarried, particularly one that ends in a lynching. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In one of his first major initiatives as the state's top jurist, Jonathan Lippman, the chief judge of New York's Court of Appeals, said he would create a permanent task force to examine wrongful convictions and recommend ways to minimize them. Members of the task force, who are being selected by Judge Lippman, will include prosecutors, defense lawyers, scientists and lawmakers. They will have a broad mandate to examine police procedures, court rules and other issues involved in wrongful convictions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a highly unusual admission of error, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday that government lawyers should have known that Congress had recently made the rape of a child a capital offense in the military and should have informed the Supreme Court of that fact while the justices were considering whether death was a constitutional punishment for the crime. ''It's true that the parties to the case missed it, but it's our responsibility,'' the department's public affairs office said in a statement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers author's views on the prisoners that are put behind bars for a long time without being charged by a judge or without being presented in a court. Terming such prisoners to be falling of the calendars, the author says that they wait for their trip to court, which become so infrequent that there remains no hope on the calendar. He mentions about a prisoner, arrested for stealing lipsticks, who committed suicide in a detention center, awaiting a court decision on theft charges.

The article presents information on a campaign by several former prosecutors against a wrong conviction. The prosecutors say that Martin H. Tankleff of Long Island, New York, has been wrongly convicted of killing his parents in 1990. The campaign against the case has been joined by about 31 former federal, state and local prosecutors, who are demanding a new trial for Tankleff against the judicial error.

The article reports on the case of Nicaraguan immigrant Alfredo Vargas, who was convicted of sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl in 2000 and acquitted January 26, 2006. Vargas worked for a synagogue, where the abuse was alleged to have taken place, and one of the congregants, Stuart Rosenberg began looking into his case. It was found that the girl could not give testimony without serious prodding from lawyers and that her parents had a history of alleging abuse.

Reports that the lawyers for Lynne F. Stewart, the lawyer who was convicted in February 2005 of aiding terrorism, have requested Judge John G. Koeltl to declare a mistrial because one juror failed to disclose during pretrial jury selection that he was biased against criminal defendants in New York City.

Reports on the after effects of the arrest of Brooklyn matrimonial judge, Gerald P. Garson. Charged with accepting bribes to influence decisions in divorce cases, each litigant that stood before him to be allowed a judicial review of the case; Review of cases which may or may not result in overturned verdicts; In anticipation of a staggering work load, chief administrative judge Jacqueline W. Silbermann, asks the state's bar association to request lawyers reviewing the cases work pro bono.

Reports on the approval given by the Legislature to sweeping safeguards that seek to prevent errors in death penalty cases and restore credibility to the criminal justice system in Springfield, Illinois.

Comments on the miscarriage of justice occurring at Tulia, Texas, as implicated in the treatment of Afro-Americans caught in a drug sting operation.

Offers the author's opinion on the criticism of the United States criminal justice system by people who are not pleased with its results. Examples of cases that brought about complaints of a failed criminal justice system; Evidence which is often being overlooked by the complainers.

Focuses on United States convicts exonerated while awaiting execution. Statistics; Reasons for mistaken death sentences; Contributions of Barry Scheck, a founder of the Innocence Project at Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and David Protess, a journalism professor at Northwestern University; Identification of people convicted because of errors in court, problems with testimony, questions of evidence, and wrong DNA.

Reports the statement by a United States Federal judge in Texas that a libel case by Texas brokerage firm MMAR Group Inc. against the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Co., should be retried. Judge Ewing Werlein Jr., who cited the deception on the part of the plaintiff; Award that the jury ordered; Details of the case.

Details the exoneration of William F. Phillips, dentist, from murder charges of his wife, Margaret Phillips in Norristown Pa. on September 18, 1994. Clarification on the use of drug papeverine by Phillips on Margaret.

Focuses on the pursuit of justice by Oliver Jones, who fell victim to the acts of police corruption and brutality in 48th Precinct, Bronx. Case of his vindication; Prosecution and justice delivered.

Reports the withdrawal of the conviction against a man on murder charges by a Federal judge Lowell Jensen in San Francisco. Details of the case; Errors committed by the judge during the trial of the convict in 1990 as stated by Jensen; Details of the ruling.

Reports the ruling of the Supreme Court on March 1, 1995, on the admissibility of evidence seized on the basis of erroneous computer report in the court. Information about the ruling; Event which led to the case.

Examines the issues arising out of a Supreme Court case involving the law regarding computer errors. Details of the case.