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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...
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...
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.
11 de ene. de 2012 · In last year’s case, the Court set aside a $14 million civil verdict that had been awarded to a man who had served nearly two decades on death row after being convicted of murder due in large...
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 ...
26 de ene. de 2024 · NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Harry Connick Sr., who was New Orleans’ district attorney for three decades and later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence that could have helped defendants, died Thursday at age 97.
