Prior to becoming a Circuit Court Judge, Thompson practiced law at the law firm of Cook and Cook in Boone County. There, he focused on litigation, which included representing several hundred indigent clients in criminal defense and other matters.
This meant that Thompson was wrongfully convicted of the robbery – a conviction that prohibited him from defending himself vigorously in the murder case. His murder case was vacated in 2002 and he was retried with his defense providing evidence that another man had committed the murder.
Then during the murder trial, Thompson was effectively precluded from testifying in his own defense because the prosecution would have impeached his testimony by referring to his armed robbery conviction. His codefendant was able to testify that he saw Thompson commit the murder without rebuttal testimony from Thompson.
The dissent, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, observed that Thompson was the victim of much more pervasive misconduct by the District Attorney's office than a single Brady violation. The New York Times opined that " Justice Ginsburg 's dissent is the more persuasive...", and the Los Angeles Times wrote that " [t]he court got this one wrong."
Clarence Thomas is the second black justice to serve on the Court. As a Supreme Court justice, Thomas is notorious for his lack of questions during oral arguments.
A divided Supreme Court held that a prosecutor's office could not be held liable for the illegal conduct of one of its prosecutors when there has been only one violation resulting from that deficient training.
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In July of 2002, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal overturned Thompson's murder conviction and remanded the case for retrial, ruling that the false robbery conviction – obtained by deliberate government misconduct – had deprived Thompson of his constitutional right to testify on his own behalf at the murder ...
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Bennett Gershman and Joel Cohen called the majority's reasoning "bizarre, " and wrote that " [Ginsburg's] dissent was so contemptuous of the majority's decision that it provoked a gratuitous concurring opinion from Justice Scalia in a likely effort to seek to legitimize the majority opinion from her savage rebuke.".
A blood splatter on the victim from the perpetrator of the robbery showed that the perpetrator had a different blood type than Thompson. This meant that Thompson was wrongfully convicted of the robbery – a conviction that prohibited him from defending himself vigorously in the murder case.
His murder case was vacated in 2002 and he was retried with his defense providing evidence that another man had committed the murder. After nearly two decades of wrongfully being imprisoned, Thompson was found not guilty in the retrial.
The district court held that, to prove deliberate indifference, Thompson did not need to show a pattern of similar Brady violations when he could demonstrate that the need for training was obvious. The jury found the district attorney’s office liable for failure to train and awarded Thompson damages.
In 1984, John Thompson, a 22-year-old African American father of two , was charged along with another man for killing a prominent New Orleans businessman. After his picture was published in the newspaper because of the arrest, victims of an unsolved attempted armed robbery identified Thompson as the person involved.
A district attorneys office cannot be held responsible under Section 1983 for failing to properly train its employees when the plaintiff can only prove a single violation of Brady v. Maryland. Fifth Circuit reversed. Court membership.
In 1993 she produced a videotape entitled Waco, the Big Lie, which contained footage of the siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas and a history of the community. The videotape was distributed widely, and for a short period after its release she was a regular guest on talk radio shows. The film challenged the mainstream news reports of the Branch Davidian siege and created a small sensation, alleging a government cover-up of the events surrounding the siege. Thompson pointed out many inconsistencies in the official story and the government reports, and the hypocrisy of using deadly weapons to "rescue" children from their parents.
She made a third film in 1994, America Under Siege accusing the government of using " black helicopters " against patriots, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency of establishing concentration camps, facilities she claimed were to prevent patriots from interfering with plans to establish a " New World Order ".
Proposed march on Washington. In 1994 Thompson declared herself "Acting Adjutant General" of the "Unorganized Militia of the United States" and announced plans for an armed march on Washington, D.C. in September of that year.
Thompson was opposed to the Bill Clinton presidency. In 1994, Thompson helped compile a list of 24 people with some connection to Clinton who had died "under other than natural circumstances". The list was included in a letter to congressional leaders by former Rep. William Dannemeyer who called for hearings on the matter.
A lawsuit was lodged on the grounds Thompson had a history of depression and suicidal threats since 2005, but was still mailed a three-month supply of painkillers.
Linda Thompson (April 26, 1953 – May 10, 2009), born Linda Diane Capps, was an American lawyer and militia movement supporter. In 1993, she quit her job as a lawyer in Indianapolis, Indiana, to start the American Justice Federation, ...
Smith Thompson was born on January 17, 1768, in Amenia, New York. Thompson earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Princeton University in 1788. He began to study law following graduation under legal scholar James Kent and was admitted to the bar in 1792. As a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Thompson went on to practice law in Poughkeepsie, New York for the next ten years.
In 1823, President Monroe nominated Thomson to become an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court to fill the vacant seat of Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston. It was not until Thompson failed to earn the nomination for the 1824 Presidential Election that he reluctantly accepted the nomination to the Supreme Court. Thompson officially began his post on September 1, 1823.
In 1800, Thompson was elected to the New York State Assembly, and the following year he served as a delegate in the New York Constitutional Convention. In 1802 Thompson became a Justice on the New York Supreme Court, where he served under his former law mentor, Chief Justice James Kent.
In 1984, John Thompson, a 22-year-old African American father of two, was charged along with another man for killing a prominent New Orleans businessman. After his picture was published in the newspaper because of the arrest, victims of an unsolved attempted armed robbery identified Thompson as the person involved.
Handling both cases, the district attorney of the Parish of Orleans, Harry Connick Sr., chose to fir…
On March 29, 2011, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas, overturned the $14 million award by the lower court, with the decision split along ideological lines. The majority found for the appellant, Harry Connick, Sr., holding that the prosecutor's office is not liable under §1983, saying that "the only issue before [the Court] is whether Connick, as the policy maker for the district attorney’s office, was deliberately indifferen…
The New York Times opined that "Justice Ginsburg's dissent is the more persuasive...", and the Los Angeles Times wrote that "[t]he court got this one wrong." Nina Totenberg wrote that "a bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court all but closed the door" to prosecutors being held liable for damages when prosecutors violate the law to deprive a person of a fair trial. Dahlia Lithwick wrote "Both Thomas and Scalia have produced what can only be described as a master class in human apath…
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• Autry, Hannah (2012). "Connick v. Thompson: The Costs of Valuing Immunity over Innocence". National Law Guild Review. 69 (1): 29.
• Bandes, Susan A. (2012). "The Lone Miscreant, the Self-Training Prosecutor, and Other Fictions: A Comment on Connick v. Thompson". Fordham Law Review. 80. SSRN 1842963.
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Linda Thompson (April 26, 1953 – May 10, 2009), born Linda Diane Capps, was an American lawyer and militia movement supporter. In 1993, she quit her job as a lawyer in Indianapolis, Indiana, to start the American Justice Federation, a non-profit group that promoted pro-gun causes through a shortwave radio program, a computer bulletin board system, and sales of its newsletter and videos. She died of a prescription drug overdose in 2009.
Thompson was opposed to the Bill Clinton presidency. In 1994, Thompson helped compile a list of 24 people with some connection to Clinton who had died "under other than natural circumstances". The list was included in a letter to congressional leaders by former Rep. William Dannemeyer who called for hearings on the matter.
In 1993 she produced a videotape entitled Waco, the Big Lie, which contained footage of the sieg…
In 1994 Thompson declared herself "Acting Adjutant General" of the "Unorganized Militia of the United States" and announced plans for an armed march on Washington, D.C. in September of that year. She declared that militiamen would arrest and try for treason in "Citizen's Courts" those Congressional representatives not living up to their oath of office. The proposed march was almost immediately denounced by groups on the right wing, including the John Birch Society, an…
Thompson died in St. Petersburg, Florida on May 10, 2009 after overdosing on medication. Her ashes were scattered in the Gulf of Mexico by her husband, in accordance with her last wishes.
The medication was posted to her by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A lawsuit was lodged on the grounds Thompson had a history of depression and suicidal threats since 2005, but was still mailed a three-month supply of painkillers. Thompson's brother, Stephe…
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