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Lindsey Vann

Relief Granted for Death Row Inmate

March 16, 2016 by Lindsey Vann

Today, United States District Court Judge Richard Gergel vacated the death sentence of Justice 360 client Johnny Bennett. The judge found Bennett’s due process rights were violated because (1) the solicitor improperly injected race into the sentencing phase of the trial (by referring to Bennett, an African American, as “King Kong” and making other racially… Read More →

A Jury of Your Peers? Not Always in South Carolina

January 11, 2016 by Emily Paavola and Lindsey Vann

In November of 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in Foster v. Chatman, a Georgia death penalty case where prosecutors struck all four African Americans from the jury pool. As a result, Timothy Tyrone Foster, an African American man accused of killing a white woman, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to… Read More →

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