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Article Calls for Courts to Implement ‘Brady Violation Disclosure Letter’ System
Loaded on Dec. 28, 2018
by Steve Horn
published in Criminal Legal News
January, 2019, page 24
Filed under:
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Brady Violations.
Location:
United States of America.
by Steve Horn
A draft copy of an academic article set to be published in 2019 in the Vanderbilt Law Review calls for a novel approach to chipping away at the nagging issue of Brady violations that occur during criminal cases.
That paper, titled “Disclosing Prosecutorial Misconduct” by University of ...
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