IP litigation may be his main bag of tricks, but for Cravath Swaine litigator David Herrington, saving a man from Tennessee’s death row has become something the fifth year Big Law associate has become passionate about. And he’s just achieved another step towards moving his client off death row.
In a pro bono victory for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton lawyers, a Tennessee appeals court has vacated the 1985 felony murder conviction of former death row inmate Erskine Johnson and remanded his case for a new trial. The decision—issued on December 9 by the Tennessee Criminal Appeals Court in Jackson—was in large part the […]