KRMFL, along with Arnold & Porter, the American Immigration Council, and the National Immigrant Justice Center, filed a lawsuit in September 2019 on behalf of five parents and their children who were directly impacted by the Trump administration’s family separation policy- a policy that senior government officials have confirmed was designed to deter migrants from […]
As outlined in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Cynthia Alvarado was released from prison after her original life sentence for felony murder was overturned by a federal court. Ms. Alvarado had been convicted for murder even though she did not shoot the decedent nor did she commit the robbery that led to the decedent’s death. In 2008, […]
KRMFL, alongside Arnold & Porter and the ACLU of Pennsylvania, filed today on behalf of the Pennsylvania Prison Society and five detained individuals an emergency request to the state Supreme Court to exercise its “King’s Bench” power in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 among people in county jails. The request asks the Supreme […]
As reported in local media, KRMFL has initiated a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Nakila Viney, whose husband, Eric Viney, died after he suffered a serious illness while detained at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. As alleged in the suit, medical providers in the prison were aware of Mr. Viney’s serious medical condition, […]
A federal court in Philadelphia issued an important decision on May 15, 2019, allowing civil rights claims on behalf of KRMFL client James Dennis to go forward. Dennis’s case is an extraordinary one. In 1992, he was convicted and sentenced to death for a murder that he did not commit. For years, Dennis challenged his […]
KRMF filed a complaint yesterday alleging that an FBI agent engaged in malicious prosecution and fabrication of evidence in his investigation of Professor Xiaoxing Xi of Temple University. At daybreak on May 21, 2015, the complaint alleges, FBI agents stormed Professor Xi’s house, held his family at gunpoint, and arrested Professor Xi. Professor Xi was subjected […]
As widely reported in Philadelphia media, after a seven-day trial, a federal jury returned a verdict acquitting ex-L&I Deputy Commissioner Dominic Verdi of all charges against him. Mr. Verdi had been the subject of a six-year investigation and prosecution by federal authorities who accused him of accepting bribes from and extorting various owners of bars, […]
In June 2016, United States District Judge Gerald A. McHugh found that imposing the statutorily required mandatory minimum sentence on a defendant who was convicted in a stash house sting case would violate his constitutional right to Due Process of Law. The defendant had been convicted after a jury trial of conspiracy, Hobbs Act robbery, […]
In a lengthy decision issued on March 22, 2016, U.S. District Judge John R. Padova ruled that a class action lawsuit on behalf of Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (“DOC”) inmates with Hepatitis C states valid legal claims under, among other provisions, the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Hepatitis C is a chronic infection that […]
KRMF lawyers have filed in a federal court in Harrisburg a civil rights wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of Tiombe Carlos, who committed suicide in October 2013 while held in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the York County Prison. Ms. Carlos was 34 years old when she died. As […]