Class Action Suit vs. Gov. Pritzker & IDOC Livestream of today’s press conference can be viewed here. In response to the swiftly spreading coronavirus epidemic in Illinois’ prisons, a consortium of the area’s leading civil rights attorneys and community advocates today filed three cases seeking release of prisoners: a federal class action suit against the… Read More
IDOC tactical team performed “shakedowns” that violated Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel & unusual punishment BENTON, IL (March 26, 2020) – A federal court today granted class certification to a lawsuit by Illinois prisoners who allegedly were “beat, sexually humiliated, and otherwise abused” by Illinois Department of Corrections guards who “gratuitously inflicted punishment for the… Read More
Parent filed a federal class action suit today against the College Board, a ubiquitous student testing organization, for deceptively collecting and selling students’ confidential personal information. While formally a not-for-profit, the College Board takes has approximately $1 billion in annual revenues each year and highly compensates its slew of executives, including its president who received… Read More
So far in these blog entries, I have discussed The Americans With Disabilities Act as it applies to the criminal justice system. I also discussed how it is impacting the accessibility of the “virtual world.” In this post, I want to address another one of the ADA’s most important features, the way it opens up… Read More
Then 18-year-old Arnold Day was framed by close colleagues of disgraced Cmdr Jon Burge and spent 26 years behind bars for crimes he didn’t commit In a case that epitomizes Chicago’s decades-long legacy of police framing Black youth for crimes they didn’t commit, police perjury, and the destruction of exculpatory evidence, all while allowing serious… Read More
Horace Roberts spent two decades behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Today, he filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Riverside County and the officers who allegedly framed him. Roberts was a forty-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran and father of two when officers of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department allegedly framed him… Read More
Guevara and other Chicago police officers used the same jailhouse informant to frame five innocent men CHICAGO – In what has become an avalanche of suits exposing the misconduct of Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara and the immeasurable harm that he and his colleagues have inflicted on citizens of Chicago, today a 19th person exonerated… Read More
SEATTLE, WA – The family of MiChance Dunlap-Gittens, a 17-year-old Black youth killed in 2017 by suburban Seattle sheriff’s deputies as they fired shots into the rear of his body, late today filed a federal lawsuit against King County, Washington and County Sheriff’s Deputies Det. Michael Garske, Sgt. Todd Miller, Det. Joseph Eshom and Det.… Read More
When the ADA was first passed in 1990, the world was a very different place, with the Internet in its early days. Since then, it has stepped into the center of everyday life: Many tasks can be done more quickly and efficiently online. While this has been a positive transformation, the law has failed to… Read More
I have been representing the criminally accused for nearly fifteen years—the entirety of my legal career. The first four years of my career were as a public defender—representing indigent Chicagoans on appeals of their criminal convictions. This included both direct appeals immediately after their convictions as well as appeals of dismissals of post-conviction or collateral… Read More
