Crosley Green wears an ankle bracelet at all times. He goes to work and church but otherwise remains under house arrest in central Florida, convicted of a 1989 murder he says he didn’t commit.
Keith Harrison believes him, with all his being.
They first crossed paths nearly 15 years ago, when Harrison’s colleague at Crowell & Moring told him about Green, whose case they discovered through an American Bar Association program that helps death penalty defendants find lawyers.
Harrison was immediately interested; soon he was visiting Green on Florida’s death row. “I thought the evidence of his innocence was overwhelming,”…
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The question before the Court of Appeals of Georgia (the “Court”) was at what point a landowner had vested rights in real property where Plaintiff purchased the subject property (the “Property”) to develop 9,000 square foot lots when the county’s zoning code (the “Code”) allowed for such density at the time but was later amended to require larger sizes. After the county, where the Property was located, passed, and extended a moratorium on processing land disturbance permits, the Plaintiff’s application to develop the Property was returned due to the moratorium. Plaintiff sought…
This post was authored by Tyler Doan, Esq.
The petitioner initially contested the grant of an exception to the local zoning ordinance to allow a converted church in a single-family residence area to be used as “small gathering space” for community events such as bridal and baby showers and class reunions. After a public hearing, the Board of Adjustments granted the exception.
The Petitioner then filed a petition for writ of certiorari challenging the board’s decision. The district court concluded the board “did not act illegally in granting the exception.” The Petitioner then appealed to the present court arguing a…
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A woman accused of shooting the district attorney for a rural central Pennsylvania county has been charged with aggravated assault and related counts, state police announced Thursday.
Porice Diamond Mincy, 31, of Emporium, was taken into custody shortly after the shooting occurred Wednesday at the law office of Paul Malizia, who serves as district attorney for Cameron County. He suffered a leg wound and was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and later released.
No other injuries were reported in the shooting, which remains under investigation.
The state police have not disclosed a possible…
An attorney entered a not guilty plea Friday on behalf of one-time powerhouse lawyer Tom Girardi who is charged with defrauding victims of the 2018 Lion Air crash, even as his court-appointed attorney questioned whether Girardi has the capacity to be prosecuted.
Girardi appeared via videoconference in a light gray sport jacket before a federal judge in Chicago, where he and two codefendants are charged with diverting millions of dollars meant for victim families into an account his firm controlled.
Girardi did not speak, other than to consent to proceed by videoconference. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cummings appointed a federal defender,…
This post was originally published on the RLUIPA Defense blog by Evan Seeman, Esq. and Madeleine Laffitte, Esq. of Robinson Cole and is reposted with permission.
On December 30, 2022, a district court dismissed a Catholic high school’s RLUIPA challenge, granting summary judgment on all claims in favor of the City of Madison, Wisconsin and various other city officials (the City). As ruled by the court, the City did not discriminate against Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart, Inc. on the basis of religion when it was denied Edgewood’s latest conditional use permit application for outdoor lighting at the…
A former lawyer in the Trump administration’s Department of Justice was presented with an award Saturday from the Federalist Society for her work and expertise on the “administrative state” and separation of powers, which has been used to fight what Republicans say is the Biden administration’s executive overreach.
Jennifer Mascott, now an associate professor at the Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, won the Joseph Story Award, which recognizes lawyers who have “demonstrated excellence in legal scholarship and who have made a significant public impact in a manner that advances the rule of law in a free society.”…