The Law Offices of Sonia Pérez Chaisson

05/16/2024

Prosecutors holding back evidence absolutely violates the constitution

Defense attorney Alan Jackson ticked off several examples of what he described as knowing 'distortions' of evidence.

09/17/2022

Another Saturday working on our craft

03/09/2022

https://youtu.be/kpYYdCzTpps

John Oliver explains why it’s so difficult to be exonerated for a wrongful conviction, even when there’s compelling evidence to prove your innocence, and how...

10/31/2021

Qualified immunity has encouraged this type of behavior by too many prosecutors! https://bit.ly/3pG7oUS?fbclid=IwAR0sKQjesRtA0OrR7MFoVgqtqqHlsmt0mhinY4-BS64wYTRbtQhH_thdi5k

Maryland’s highest court has disbarred retired Harford County State’s Attorney Joseph Cassilly for withholding exculpatory evidence that surfaced in a 1981 double-murder case and lying about it over the years.

10/22/2021

Judges need to really grasp this when assessing credibility and police officers when gathering facts

09/23/2021

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/texas-court-tosses-inmates-death-sentence-and-double-murder-conviction-because-prosecutor-worked-for-trial-judge/

A Texas appeals court tossed the death sentence and conviction of Clinton Lee Young after it was revealed that the judge who presided over his trial simultaneously employed one of the prosecutors in the case as his judicial clerk.

07/05/2021

https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/07/05/it-was-him-or-me-witnesses-recall-prosecutors-threatening-them-and-their-family-to-get-wrongful-conviction-of-philadelphia-black-man-whos-now-free-after-34-years/

A Black man was released from a correctional facility in Pennsylvania on June 24 after spending 34 years behind bars after authorities found that

01/06/2021

Why I practice criminal law. https://thegrio.com/2020/12/16/michigan-man-released-from-prison-after-37-years/?fbclid=IwAR0PgaxJ5Pin7dntSIoDleGlKs6Kkbcm1-ertmnrRlXPkc1Z4fWkI-NtkmM

A Michigan man by the name of Walter Forbes was wrongfully imprisoned for 37 years until a witness admitted she lied in her story.

12/25/2020

https://www.consumerreports.org/debt-collection/debt-collectors-will-be-able-to-contact-you-on-facebook-instagram-twitter/?EXTKEY=YSOCIAL_PAIDPROMO_FB&fbclid=IwAR2sioPhf0e3VrFdZAfcwndw2rfDxv2t1kFkb8ozraYm1h4oipRF_xvr0Ps

A new CFPB rule will give debt collectors agencies more ways to find you, including online. Consumer Reports shares advice on what to do if collectors come after you.

10/10/2020

https://www.facebook.com/caughtinprovidence/videos/128281381869513/?vh=e&extid=0

10/04/2020

https://www.thecut.com/2015/07/juvenile-justice-system-fails-abuse-victims.html

Up to 80 percent of girls in some states' juvenile justice systems have been sexually or physically abused, according to a new report.

10/02/2020

https://nextshark.com/frances-choy-massachusetts-free-racist-emails/

Frances Choy, a 34-year-old woman from Brockton, Massachusetts who was wrongfully convicted and spent 17 years in jail for the death of her parents, has been freed after the recent discovery of racist emails between prosecutors in her case. Prosecutors filed a nolle prosequi, an official notice stat...