27 March 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Mark Duggan’s mother: police report is ‘another slap in the face’

Mark Duggan & Family — Mark Duggan and family members

source: The Guardian
published: 25 March 2015

The mother of Mark Duggan, who was shot fatally by police, has described Wednesday’s report from the police watchdog clearing the officers of any wrongdoing as “another slap in the face” for her family. Pam Duggan said the family had cooperated with the Independent Police Complaints Commission, but had been “let down again”.

The IPCC report said Mark Duggan – whose 2011 shooting in Tottenham, north London, sparked the worst riots of recent times across cities and towns in England – was probably in the process of throwing away a handgun when he was shot.

24 March 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Prosecutor apologizes for sending innocent man to Louisiana’s death row

source: Equal Justice Initiative
published: March 2015

Marty” Stroud III, the lead prosecutor responsible for sending Glenn Ford to death row for a murder he didn’t commit, apologized and called for abolition of the death penalty in an open letter published in the Shreveport Times.

Mr. Stroud wrote in response to the paper’s coverage of Mr. Ford’s struggle to obtain compensation for the nearly 30 years he wrongfully spent on death row.

Mr. Ford was released on March 11, 2014, after the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s office filed a motion to vacate his conviction and death sentence based on new evidence that someone else committed the crime. Louisiana law allows compensation of $25,000 a year capped at $250,000 for the wrongfully convicted, but prosecutors are opposing Mr. Ford’s request.

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21 March 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Ex-Mountie convicted of perjury after Vancouver taser-death inquiry

source: The Globe & Mail
published: 20 March 2015

A former Mountie who was involved in Robert Dziekanski’s death and was later held up by the force as an example of a bad apple within its ranks was convicted on Friday of perjury for his testimony at a public inquiry.

Former corporal Benjamin (Monty) Robinson was charged along with three other officers for their testimony at hearings that examined what happened when Mr. Dziekanski was stunned with a taser at Vancouver’s airport and died in October, 2007.