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Attorneys for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" petitioned for his immediate release Friday after a federal appeals court ruled that his confession was coerced.
The confession of a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was improperly obtained and he should be retried or released from prison, a three-judge federal appeals panel ruled. Brendan Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach's death on Halloween two years earlier.
A federal appeals panel affirmed a lower court's ruling that Brendan Dassey 's confession was improperly obtained in a Wisconsin killing that was the focus of the Netflix series "Making a Murderer." The three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Thursday that "no reasonable court" could have confidence that Dassey 's confession was voluntary.
Brendan Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach's death on Halloween two years earlier. Dassey told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach in the Avery family's Manitowoc County salvage yard.
In a Friday, March 3, 2006 file photo, Brendan Dassey is escorted out of a Manitowoc County Circuit courtroom, in Manitowoc, Wis. A three-judge panel from the 7th Circuit on Thursday, June 22, 2017 affirmed that Dassey, a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was coerced into confessing and should be released from prison.
In a May 16 Blog Post, I reviewed several cases dealing with the question of whether Title VII's ban on discrimination "because of . . . sex" included a ban on discrimination "because of sexual preferences."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit likely just handed the Supreme Court a new case about a transgender student to consider. The Court's opinion , issued Tuesday, eviscerates a Wisconsin school's arguments for discriminating against one of its students.
A Chicago-based appeals court has halted the deportation of a Mexican immigrant in Ohio to give the court time to assess whether his deportation might seriously harm his three children who are U.S. citizens. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reports the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Ricardo Sanchez made plausible arguments he couldn't support his family on Mexican wages.
A Chicago-based federal appeals court is looking into allowing TV cameras to cover some of its proceedings. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin has reported that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could join state high courts and several federal appellate courts in permitting live broadcasts.
Indiana is appealing a federal ruling that blocks a state mandate forcing women to undergo an ultrasound at least 18 hours before having an abortion. Attorneys for the state filed a motion Thursday saying they will appeal the case to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.
In this March 14, 2012, file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to the media outside his home in Chicago as his wife, Patti, wipes away tears a day before reporting to prison after his conviction on corruption charges. An appeals court Tuesday, April 18, 2017, heard oral arguments on whether Blagojevich should get a third sentencing hearing.
Is the U.S. court system the last hope for LGBT equality the next four years? Following an avalanche of groundbreaking rulings extending existing civil rights legislation to cover sexual orientation and gender identity, it certainly seems so. The past week has been a groundbreaking one in cementing the rights of LGBT individuals to equal protection under the law.
An appeals court ruled in support of LGBT rights this week, reversing decades of interpretation that largely allowed companies to discriminate against workers on the basis of sexual orientation. In their groundbreaking decision, nine of 12 judges in an en banc panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said that gay and lesbian workers are protected under Title VII.
Charles and Laura Bramel and Chester Channels have filed an appeal with the Ohio 7th District Court of Appeals contesting the Feb. 23 ruling declaring them vexatious litigators and ordering they quit taking any further legal action in county courts without the judge's approval. Columbiana County commissioners filed a lawsuit last summer to have the Bramels and Channels declared vexatious litigators, which is someone who repeatedly files lawsuits or other legal actions that have little or no basis in law and seeks to use these actions to harass or maliciously injure another party.
Charles and Laura Bramel and Chester Channels have filed an appeal with the Ohio 7th District Court of Appeals contesting the Feb. 23 ruling declaring them vexatious litigators and ordering they quit taking any further legal action in county courts without the judge's approval. Columbiana County commissioners filed a lawsuit last summer to have the Bramels and Channels declared vexatious litigators, which is someone who repeatedly files lawsuits or other legal actions that have little or no basis in law and seeks to use these actions to harass or maliciously injure another party.
A ban on panhandling in downtown Springfield that was ruled unconstitutional for infringing on First Amendment rights could soon be off the city's rulebooks. An ordinance proposed this week would repeal panhandling regulations, including the ban on verbal requests for an immediate donation, which was ruled unconstitutional by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2015.
ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a ruling against a Nigerian senator who faces drug charges related to the hit TV show "Orange is the New Black." Chicago prosecutors accuse Buruji Kashamu of heading a heroin trafficking ring in the 1990s.
The Supreme Court issued an order today agreeing to hear three cases involving the National Labor Relations Board's holding that class and collective class action waivers violate Section 8 . According to the Board's first decision on the matter in D.R. Horton, an "individual who files a class or collective action regarding wages, hours or working conditions, whether in court or before an arbitrator, seeks to initiate or induce group action and is engaged in conduct protected by Section 7 central to the [NLRA's] purposes."
In this July 15, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the federal courthouse in Chicago. Blagojevich is asking a U.S. appeals court to nullify his 14-year prison term and order a third sentencing hearing.
A Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" has no basis for his claims that his confession wasn't voluntary and shouldn't be released from prison as a judge has ordered, state attorneys argued in a court filing. Brendan Dassey, now 27, was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in the death of photographer Teresa Halbach two years earlier.