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Shahram Khoshbin, an associate professor of neurology at the Medical School, has been affiliated with Currier for over 30 years as a resident tutor and chair of its pre-medical advisory committee. His wife, Laura, is a senior attorney in the law office for the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and McLean Hospital, and has served as chair of Currier House's pre-law advisory committee. Together, they teach a popular House seminar, Currier 79, "Medicine, Law, and Ethics: An Introduction...
...when U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf announced the bust, she deployed code-red verbiage: "Had the plot been carried out, it could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction." It was "chilling." The devastation could have been "unthinkable...
...nearly six times that in bonuses, according to Forbes.com. Originally from New York City, Chenault graduated magna cum laude in history from Bowdoin College in 1973 and then moved to Cambridge to attend law school. Armed with his HLS degree, Chenault worked for a brief time as an attorney at Rogers & Wells before crossing the line into the financial world as a management consultant for Bain & Co., where he worked until 1981. Since then, he has been a part of AMEX, where he rose in the ranks, occupying various directorial positions in the sub-divisions of the giant before taking...
...Three of these students worked closely with attorneys on a case involving Byron Halsey, a man from Plainfield, N.J., who was exonerated on May 15. He served more than two decades in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting, mutilating and murdering two of his girlfriend's children, ages 7 and 8. DNA testing was not available during Halsey's trial, but after obtaining all the necessary evidence - a process that took the Innocence Project three years - a DNA profile from the crime scene showed a direct link to the children's next-door neighbor, who is currently in prison...
...this case," Plotkin says. In most cases, the evidence is so convincing that prosecutors do not choose to hold a retrial, athough they do have that option. According to Neufeld, none of the 201 exonerations have resulted in a guilty verdict after a retrial. Bob Keller, the district attorney in the case of Calvin Johnson, who served more than 15 years in a Georgia prison for a rape he didn't commit, did not prosecute Johnson again. "I applaud the efforts of the Innocence Project," Keller says. "If not for that project, Calvin would still be in jail, which would...