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Contents. Connick v. Thompson. Connick v. Thompson. Jury verdict affirmed in part, reversed in part, Thompson v. Connick, 553 F.3d 836 ( 5th Cir. 2008); on rehearing en banc, 578 F.3d 293 (5th Cir. 2009); cert. granted, 559 U.S. 1004 (2010). Remanded, Thompson v. Connick, 641 F.3d 133 (5th Cir. 2011).
30 de mar. de 2011 · Reporting from Washington — A bitterly divided Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a jury verdict won by a New Orleans man who spent 14 years on death row and came within weeks of execution...
27 de ene. de 2024 · By Adam Nossiter. Jan. 27, 2024. Harry Connick Sr., a long-serving district attorney in New Orleans whose office gained national notoriety for prosecutorial overreach that eventually resulted...
CONNICK V. THOMPSON. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. CONNICK, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, et al. v . THOMPSON. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the fifth circuit. No. 09–571. Argued October 6, 2010—Decided March 29, 2011.
The reviewing court determined that the evidence was exculpatory, and both of Thompson’s convictions were vacated. After his release from prison, Thompson sued petitioner Harry Connick, in his official capacity as the Orleans Parish District Attorney, for damages under Rev. Stat. §1979, 42 U. S. C. §1983.
29 de mar. de 2011 · In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court today overturned a jury verdict and lower-court rulings awarding $14 million to a former Louisiana death row inmate who had sued then-New Orleans DA Harry Connick Sr. after prosecutors neglected to turn over evidence that would have been helpful to his defense.
In 2007, John Thompson, who was wrongfully convicted of murder by Connick's DA office due to evidence withholding, was awarded a $14 million verdict by a federal court jury. The jury found "that Thompson's 18 years behind bars (14 of which he spent in solitary confinement on death row) were caused by Connick's deliberate failure to ...
