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Education: B.C.L., University College Cork; LL.M., University of Cambridge Since 2014, University of Minnesota Law School professor JaneAnne Murray and her students, through the school’s Clemency Project, have helped win early release for 32 low-level, nonviolent inmates serving disproportionately long sentences. Murray, who founded the project at the university, served on the steering committee of Clemency Project 2014, a collaboration of defense organizations that recruited and trained lawyers to submit clemency applications under an initiative by then President Barack Obama. Murray focus...

Washington high court charts less punitive path on juvenile justice With the Monschke decision, the state Supreme Court expanded the definition of youth in murder cases. No other court has done so. by Washington State’s Supreme Court Building, also known as the Temple of Justice, photographed on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, from Heritage Park in Olympia, Wash. (Jovelle Tamayo for Crosscut) Liberal marijuana laws, an early endorsement for same-sex marriage and our general embrace of individual initiative have led lots of people to see Washington as an outpost of freewheeling progressivism. But...

New legal clinic concentrates on cases of women languishing in the system for crimes against alleged abusers Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune © Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS Attorney Rachel White-Domain, director of the Women and Survivors Project, on March 15, 2021, in Chicago. It is not disputed that in June 2007 Tewkunzi Green fatally stabbed her boyfriend. Green testified to as much at her trial, but also telling a Peoria jury that she was pinned against a sink, sheltering the couple’s 6-month-old baby in her arms as her boyfriend choked her when ...

Columnist William Newman: Trump’s unpardonable abuse of the pardon power In this Dec. 12, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. AP Published: 1/1/2021 9:41:45 AM I believe I know something about pardons and commutations. My co-counsel, Buz Eisenberg of Ashfield, and I asked a president for a number of them. Details below. The Constitution says, “The president ... shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment.”  The exclusion of state crimes and impeachme...

A Michigan woman who says she conspired to have her husband killed to protect herself and her 7-year-old daughter from abuse is asking for clemency, her only chance at freedom from a life sentence in prison.  LuAnne Szenay says she endured violence at the hands of her husband for 12 years. In 1990, she hired two men to kill Timothy Szenay, believing that his death would be her only way out after police repeatedly dismissed her complaints of domestic abuse.  She now recognizes her thinking was “terrible” and “wrongful,” according to a commutation application that her daughter filed o...