There have been many instances when seemingly strong cases — even some where defendants themselves confessed — fell apart after DNA testing, said lawyers for the Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted prisoners that filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Mr. Manning's case.
Accordingly, Mr. Brodnick said, a tenant who feels he or she has been wrongfully evicted could file a civil suit against the property owner.
Two of the nation's leading banking companies, Chase Manhattan and J. P. Morgan, were accused in a lawsuit filed yesterday of wrongfully seizing bank accounts and safe-deposit assets of Jewish customers during the German occupation of France in World War II and then failing to return them after the war.
Tina Varlesi has also filed against the Salvation Army for wrongfully terminating her internship, which was required for her degree.
Successful prosecutions could also potentially help shield the city from civil right lawsuits filed by those who were wrongfully arrested during the Ferguson protests.
Shapiro states in the complaint filed last week that he was "wrongfully discharged" because of the "personal animosity" of Councilman Tony DeBellis, who defeated Shapiro in an election last year for City Council.
More than a dozen protesters who were arrested at a vigil for Alfred Olango in El Cajon on Oct. 1 filed a lawsuit Monday, claiming police wrongfully ordered them to disperse and violated their civil rights. .
More than a dozen protesters who were arrested at a vigil for Alfred Olango in El Cajon on Oct. 1 filed a lawsuit Monday, claiming police wrongfully ordered them to disperse and violated their civil rights.
Marron has likewise filed complaints against AIG and Charles Schwab for wrongfully selling variable annuities to senior citizens.
The senior operations manager who filed the lawsuit, Brandon Charles, says he was wrongfully terminated for reporting sexual harassment of female colleagues by their managers, as well as for outing several managers who he claims improperly recorded loans in order to goose their bonus pay.
