Clearwater Criminal Lawyer

DNA evidence has cleared a man of a conviction for a rape and burglary in Richardson, Texas nearly 23 years after the original crime was committed.
The man was identified as the guilty party after a questionable identification process. DNA evidence shows that he could not possibly have been the man to commit the rape and burglary.
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New DNA evidence may clear a man who was previously convicted of rape. The man was also convicted of carjacking. A petition was filed by a group of lawyers who say that new DNA evidence indicates the current inmate did not commit the crimes.
The prisoner, Nathaniel Hatchett, has been in prison for the last 12 […]

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The jails of Miami-Dade county are under review by federal investigators concerning their treatment of inmates.
 The Department of Justice sent a detailed account of its upcoming review of the Miami-Dade County jails in a letter that was addressed to Mary Carlos Alvarez, U.S. Attorney R. Alex Acosta, and the head of the county’s corrections department.
The investigation will focus on efforts […]

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Lynn DeJac, 44, was cleared of her second-degree murder conviction after spending 13 years in jail for allegedly strangling her daughter. Although DeJac had been released from jail in November after new evidence placed her former boyfriend, Dennis Donahue, in the room around the time of Crystallynn Girard’s death, it was not until recently that […]

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