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Article • February 1, 2025 • from CLN February, 2025
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Admits Over 1,000 Cases Affected by DNA Test Misconduct by James Mills by James Mills The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (“CBI”) announced that more than 1,000 cases could be affected by the systematic deletion and falsification of data by forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods. Woods was …
In re Complaint of Judicial Misconduct (Hon. Roger T. Benitez), CA, Order, Judicial Misconduct, 2024 Page 1 JUDICIAL COUNCIL OF THE NINTH CIRCUIT FILED MAY 1 2024 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS IN RE COMPLAINT OF JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT Before: I. Nos. 23-90037 and 23-90041 ORDER MURGUIA, Chief …
Article • December 15, 2022 • from CLN January, 2023
U.S. Senator to Federal Agency: Investigate Abusive Use of Administrative Subpoena Power to Gather Bulk Financial Records by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) operates U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”). In turn, ICE oversees the subagency Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”). Since 2019, …
Article • December 15, 2020 • from CLN January, 2021
A New Style of Crime Documentary by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Documentaries about crime, especially murder, have been around for a very long time, but most merely seek to entertain or touch the nerve that compels people to watch tragedy unfold. These documentaries, regardless of whether they are feature-length …
Article • December 19, 2019 • from CLN January, 2020
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct
Seventh Circuit Vacates Sentence Because Sentencing Judge Should Have Recused Himself Due to Ex Parte Communications with U.S. Attorney’s Office by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the sentence of James Atwood because Judge Colin S. Bruce should have recused himself …
Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Partial Justice by Christopher Zoukis How a Judiciary Poisoned by Politics, Ideology, and Unaccountability Contributes to the Wrongful Conviction of Innocent Men and Women by Christopher Zoukis, MBA Alexander Hamilton said in Federalist Paper No. 78 that the judiciary “may truly be said to have neither force nor will but …
Article • February 14, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Louisiana Supreme Court Vacates Conviction for Batson Violation by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Supreme Court of Louisiana affirmed a court of appeals determination that a trial court erred when it denied a Batson challenge to the State striking one of two black jurors from a criminal trial panel …
Article • December 29, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Ninth Circuit Holds Undisclosed Relationship Between Murdered FBI Agent and Presiding Judge in Capital Case Created Intolerable Risk of Judicial Bias, Warranting Habeas Relief by David Reutter by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that an undisclosed connection between an FBI agent and a …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from CLN November, 2018
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct
West Virginia Legislature Impeaches State Supreme Court Justices for Alleged Misconduct by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The West Virginia legislature on August 13, 2018, approved 11 articles of impeachment against all West Virginia Supreme Court justices for alleged “wasteful spending, maladministration, incompetency, neglect of duty, and potential criminal behavior,” …
Is a Florida Chief Judge Taking Cues From a Prosecutor? by Jacqueline Azis, Somil Trivedi by Jacqueline Azis, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Florida & Somil Trivedi, Staff Attorney, ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality Prosecutors are some of the most powerful elected officials in our country. They decide what …
Judge's Husband Profited From Prison Stock by David Reutter by David Reutter The Iowa federal judge who oversaw the judicial proceeds for about 400 undocumented immigrants who were arrested at the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse may have committed ethical violations by coordinating the raid. The May 12, 2008 raid made headlines for …
Article • February 16, 2018 • from CLN March, 2018
First Circuit: Plain Error Standard Met When Trial Court Emphasized Erroneous Jury Instruction by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The trial court’s repeated inclusion of an erroneous element in the jury instructions amounted to a “plain error,” which led the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to vacate …
Massachusetts High Court Vacates OUI Conviction for Improper Jury Instruction in Which Judge Told Jury to Disregard the Absence of Any Sobriety Tests by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a defendant accused of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (“OUI”) …
Article • January 19, 2018 • from CLN February, 2018
New York Court of Appeals: Criminal Trial Judge Cannot Also Be Sole Appellate Judge by The New York Court of Appeals ruled on October 24, 2017 that the judge who presided over a defendant’s criminal trial cannot also act as the sole judge who presides over that defendant’s appeal as …
Absurd, Abusive, and Outrageous: The Creation of Crime and Criminals in America by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The U.S. is a world leader in the jailing and imprisoning of its own citizens. The FBI estimates that local, state, and federal authorities have carried out more than a quarter-billion arrests …
Article • January 3, 2018
Texas Judge Resigns Over Speeding Ticket Quota by For more than 15 years David Viscarde was a volunteer municipal court judge in the small central Texas town of Calvert in Robertson County before he resigned over what he said was pressure by town officials to push speeding tickets through his …
Article • December 27, 2017
Seventh Circuit Rejects Demand for Recusal in Milwaukee Strip-Search Cases by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently denied the City of Milwaukee's attempt to force the removal of the judge presiding over several unconstitutional police strip-search cases on the basis …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
Ninth Circuit: Discovery Rule Applies to Judicial Deception Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Applying the Discovery Rule in determining when the applicable two-year statute of limitations (“SOL”) begins to run on “judicial deception” claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a claim brought …
Article • December 12, 2017
Eleventh Circuit Grants Habeas Hearing in Judicial Bias Case by Christopher Zoukis By Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has reversed a district court and ruled that an evidentiary hearing is required when a criminal defendant has sufficiently alleged actual bias on the part …
Article • November 30, 2017
Michigan Court Forced to End “Pay or Stay” Policy by David Reutter by David Reutter A Michigan state district court judge was ordered to end a “pay or stay” policy that he used to toss poor defendants in jail for their inability to pay fines, fees and court costs. The …
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