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United States November 18, 1983 (sentencing) Attempted possession of cocaine 3 months imprisonment, $5,000 fine Aikens was arrested, charged and sentenced with teammates Willie Wilson and Jerry Martin. They were the first active MLB players ever to be sentenced for drug violations. [171] Retired United States
Cunningham v. Federal Bureau of Prisons was a federal class-action lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons and officials who run ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Fremont County, Colorado. In 2012, 11 inmates filed the suit, originally named Bacote v. Federal Bureau of Prisons.
After multiple state and federal lawsuits, a federal court cumulatively awarded McCollum and Brown with $75 million, the largest award for a wrongful conviction in United States history. [150] Artis died in prison in 2020 while serving a life sentence for a separate murder. Nov 1983: John Gordon Purvis: Murder Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Life in ...
2 ex-NBA players sentenced to prison for their roles in $4M fraudulent benefits scheme ... he agreed to pay restitution of $2,500,000 to the welfare plan and to forfeit $653,672.55 to the United ...
A lawsuit filed by three ex-St. John Bosco High employees alleges that coach Jason Negro embezzled money from the Catholic school and had assistants pay players' tuition in cash.
Of the more than 2,500 lawsuits filed under a special New York law, nearly 20% allege sexual violence against current or former prisoners at the infamous Rikers Island facilities.
The trial ended in 1979 with the ruling that the conditions of imprisonment within the TDC prison system constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the United States Constitution, [2] with the original report issued in 1980, a 118-page decision by Judge William Justice (Ruiz v. Estelle, 503 F.Supp. 1295). [3]
The scandal involved 37 arrests of students from 22 different colleges, [1] [2] as well as at least nine players that received money from fixers or gamblers that were never convicted of crimes, eight go-betweens being prosecuted for their efforts in the scandal (including a couple of former college basketball players and a college football ...