Neel Lalchandani and Michael Abrams quoted in Baltimore Banner article discussing how BGL consumer and exoneree Tyrone Jones could lastly see compensation for the injustice of his wrongful conviction. – Tech Cyber Web

The Baltimore Banner just lately printed an article highlighting that BGL consumer, Tyrone Jones, could lastly be eligible to hunt compensation for his wrongful conviction. Mr. Jones was wrongfully convicted of conspiracy to commit homicide and sentenced to life in jail and served ten years behind bars earlier than being exonerated. Brown, Goldstein & Levy attorneys Neel Lalchandani and Michael Abrams are a part of the workforce representing Mr. Jones and offered remark to the Banner.

Regardless of being sentenced to life in jail, Mr. Jones was deemed ineligible to hunt compensation for his wrongful conviction because the Walter Lomax Act beforehand solely lined felony convictions. Maryland regulation identifies most conspiracy convictions as misdemeanors, whatever the sentence size. HB 1086, which went into impact on July 1, 2024, amends the Walter Lomax Act by increasing who’s eligible to hunt compensation beneath the Act.

Initially, Mr. Jones misplaced earlier than the Workplace of Administrative Hearings. However BGL understands that advocating for justice for purchasers typically extends past the courtroom. As such, the BGL workforce (together with Lauren Kelleher and Michele Corridor) – in partnership with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Mission (MAIP) and Mr. Jones, amongst many different organizations and people – have been thrilled to see the legislative repair to the Walter Lomax Act.

“We disagreed with how the court docket interpreted it. We thought there was a greater interpretation, and we have been going to pursue that on the attraction,” Michael informed The Banner. “However we additionally acknowledged that the legislature might change this with a single phrase.”

“It’s previous time for this improper to be righted,” stated Neel to the publication. He additionally referred to as on Maryland Lawyer Basic Anthony Brown to settle the case: “Not each case must be this lengthy, drawn out combat with a lot of litigation and time and assets.”

Learn the complete article right here.

ABOUT NEEL LALCHANDANI

Neel, who serves as Vice Chair of the MAIP Board of Administrators, has helped safe a number of of the most important funds in Maryland historical past for victims of police misconduct. He has represented a number of purchasers who every obtained important state compensation quantities beneath the invoice, together with exonerees Kirk Bloodsworth, Leslie Vass, Bernard Webster, and Paul Madison. Neel has important expertise with complicated litigation in each state and federal court docket, in addition to in arbitrations. Learn extra about Neel right here.

ABOUT MICHAEL ABRAMS

Michael joined BGL in September 2022, the place he represents purchasers in numerous appeals, civil rights, felony, industrial litigation, and employment issues. Throughout his time because the PJC Murnaghan Fellow, Michael offered oral argument and filed principal briefs and cert petitions – along with authoring amicus briefs – in state and federal courts, in search of to implement civil rights and advance racial fairness on the appellate stage. Learn extra about Michael right here.

ABOUT BGL

Based in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a regulation agency primarily based in Baltimore, Maryland, with an workplace in Washington, D.C. The agency is nationally acknowledged in all kinds of observe areas, together with complicated civil and industrial litigation, civil rights, well being care, household regulation, and felony protection. Above all else, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a client-centered regulation agency that brings many years of expertise and passionate, efficient advocacy to your combat for justice.