Paul Chevigny, Early Voice on Police Brutality, Dies at 88
An eminent civil rights lawyer, he was one of the nation’s foremost experts on abusive policing. He also successfully challenged New York’s Cabaret Law.
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An eminent civil rights lawyer, he was one of the nation’s foremost experts on abusive policing. He also successfully challenged New York’s Cabaret Law.
An eminent civil rights lawyer, he was one of the nation’s foremost experts on abusive policing. He also successfully challenged New York’s Cabaret Law.
Priscilla Read Chenoweth, Who Won Freedom for a Stranger, Dies at 90 She spent seven years and much of her retirement savings to prove that a teenager had been wrongly convicted of murder. Priscilla Read Chenoweth in the 1980s. She later turned the study in her home into a makeshift law office, helping to exonerate a young man she was convinced had been wrongfully convicted of murder.Credit...via Chenoweth family Published March 5, 2021Updated March 9, 2021 Priscilla Read Chenoweth, a civil rights activist and lawyer who spent seven years and tens of thousands of dollars of her own money to e...