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by Chris Palmer - Published May 21, 2021 Link to Article - Larry Walker's Case Page - Full Screen Video A West Philadelphia man who spent 38 years behind bars for a murder he insisted he didn’t commit was released from prison Friday after a judge agreed that...
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The work of a Centurion investigator often starts with a knock on the door, which is fitting because that is exactly what years earlier triggered the tragic mistake that we are seeking to correct. ...
Thank you for the support and love you have given to Ben Spencer as he celebrates his freedom and continues his fight for justice! He is now home and reconnecting with the family he missed for 34 years while he was wrongfully incarcerated. His fight is...
By: Paul Casteleiro, Legal Director Currently, as shocking as it may be, imprisoning a person who is actually innocent does not violate the United States Constitution and as a result, a federal court has no power to grant habeas corpus relief based solely on evidence proving...
It’s been 34 years since Ben Spencer went home to his wife Debra. Back then, she didn’t own the three-bedroom home in Cedar Hill where her walls are decorated with photos of him and their son, Ben Jr., She bought the house while he was in...
Last month, Centurion participated in oral argument before the Supreme Court of New Jersey...
Collectively they spent more than 100 years imprisoned in MD for crimes they did not commit. Centurion exoneree, Walter Lomax, is one of five innocent men who petitioned the state for compensation for wrongful convictions. It is promising to see Maryland moving in the right...
Screenshots from Good Day LA - Fox 11 Fox 11-Fighting to Free the Wrongly Convicted Michaela Pereira, Good Day LA - Fox11, interviews Centurion founder, Jim Mcloskey. In a candid conversation, Jim shares his experiences of freeing wrongly convicted men and women and his excitement about the...
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Jim Floyd is a life-long Princeton, NJ resident and a psychologist. He graduated from Princeton University in 1969 with a concentration in Psychology. Dr. Floyd attended the University of Rochester and completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1975.
Between 1975 and 1979 Dr. Floyd was director of the Community Readjustment Program, a free outpatient psychological service for ex-offenders in Mercer County, NJ. He is retired from a career with the NJ State Division of Mental Health, including serving as the “psychology consultant” for the Division, and an administrator at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Trenton, NJ. Also, he is a licensed psychologist in NJ, has been listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, a member of the American Psychological Asso. & NJ Psychological Asso., and has had a private practice in psychology. Between 1987-2007 he had thirteen ‘Lecturer’ faculty appointments in the Psychology Dept. of Princeton University.
Christina received her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University – Newark and her law degree from Washington University in St. Louis. Most recently, Christina worked at The Legal Aid Society in the Parole Revocation Defense Unit (during which time she spent a significant amount of time on Rikers Island working with clients with special needs), and then in the Criminal Defense Practice.
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990.
One day at the DeSoto County courthouse, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl’s father had murdered her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood Press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and published it in June 1988.
That might have put an end to Grisham’s hobby. However, he had already begun his next book, and it would quickly turn that hobby into a new full-time career—and spark one of publishing’s greatest success stories. The day after Grisham completed A Time to Kill, he began work on another novel, the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. When he sold the film rights to The Firm to Paramount Pictures for $600,000, Grisham suddenly became a hot property among publishers, and book rights were bought by Doubleday. Spending 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, The Firm became the bestselling novel of 1991.
The successes of The Pelican Brief, which hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and The Client, which debuted at number one, confirmed Grisham’s reputation as the master of the legal thriller. Grisham’s success even renewed interest in A Time to Kill, which was republished in hardcover by Doubleday and then in paperback by Dell. This time around, it was a bestseller.
Since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988, Grisham has written one novel a year (his other books are The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, The King of Torts, Bleachers, The Last Juror, The Broker, Playing for Pizza, The Appeal, The Associate, The Confession, The Litigators, Calico Joe, The Racketeer, Sycamore Row, Gray Mountain, Rogue Lawyer, The Whistler, Camino Island, The Rooster Bar, The Reckoning, and The Guardians) and all of them have become international bestsellers. There are currently over 300 million John Grisham books in print worldwide, which have been translated into 40 languages. Nine of his novels have been turned into films (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, A Painted House, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas), as was an original screenplay, The Gingerbread Man. The Innocent Man (October 2006) marked his first foray into non-fiction, and Ford County (November 2009) was his first short story collection.
Grisham took time off from writing for several months in 1996 to return, after a five-year hiatus, to the courtroom. He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full-time writer: representing the family of a railroad brakeman killed when he was pinned between two cars. Preparing his case with the same passion and dedication as his books’ protagonists, Grisham successfully argued his clients’ case, earning them a jury award of $683,500—the biggest verdict of his career.
When he’s not writing, Grisham devotes time to charitable causes, including most recently his Rebuild The Coast Fund, which raised 8.8 million dollars for Gulf Coast relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He also keeps up with his greatest passion: baseball. The man who dreamed of being a professional baseball player now serves as the local Little League commissioner. The six ballfields he built on his property have played host to over 350 kids on 26 Little League teams.