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Prosecutors Receive Absurdly Lenient Sentence of Probation for Brady Violation That Resulted in an Innocent Man Spending More Than Four Years in Prison by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The District of Columbia Court of Appeals gave prosecutors Mary Chris Dobbie and Reagan Taylor an absurdly lenient sentence of one …
Reform-Minded Prosecutors Face Backlash for Prosecuting Bad Cops by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford   In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement spurred by the police-involved killing of George Floyd, citizens across the country elected reform-minded prosecutors who ran on platforms promising accountability for police who break the …
What Happens When Prosecutors Offer Opposing Versions of the Truth? by Ken Armstrong by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica An unusual recent court decision offered harsh criticism of a behavior that has left dozens of men condemned to death since the 1970s, spotlighting cases where prosecutors offered claims that contradicted what they …
Article • September 3, 2021
Ex-Prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbury Case Charged With Violating Oath of Office, Obstructing Justice by An indictment unsealed on September 2, 2021, charges the former District Attorney in Brunswick, Georgia, of allowing her “favor and affection” for a former investigator to keep her from charging him with the murder of a …
Prosecutors Who Demand Accountability From Everyone But Themselves by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian When a criminal defendant enters a court of law, he or she is aware that the prosecutor intends to hold them accountable for any of their conduct alleged to have violated a law. The public implicitly …
Article • December 15, 2020 • from CLN January, 2021
Washington Supreme Court: Prosecutor’s War on Drugs Comments Denies Fair Trial by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Washington held a prosecutor committed flagrant and ill-intentioned misconduct by framing a defendant’s prosecution as representative of the war on drugs. The Court’s opinion was issued in an …
New Report Shows More Than Half of Wrongful Convictions Involved Misconduct by Police and Prosecutors by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell More than half of the cases where innocent people were wrongfully prosecuted and imprisoned over the last three decades involved misconduct by the police and/or prosecutors. This comes from …
Wilson v. County of Los Angeles, CA, Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Conviction, 2020 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS This Settlement Agreement and Release of All Claims ("Agreement") is made and entered into by and between Plaintiff Andrew Wilson ("Plaintiff'), on the one hand, and Defendant County of Los Angeles …
Article • February 19, 2020 • from CLN March, 2020
Critics Claim Thin Blue Line Protects Cops and Prosecutors in Orange County, California by Bill Barton by Bill Barton At about 6 a.m., August 19, 2018, Orange County police officer Michael Devitt yanked Mohamed Sayem from his Jeep and punched him several times in the face and stomach, an incident …
Article • February 19, 2020 • from CLN March, 2020
Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Kansas Considers It Acceptable to Listen to Attorney-Client Conversations by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss United States District Court Judge Julie Robinson released a 188-page opinion August 13, 2019, holding the Kansas branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office (“USAO”) in contempt for deliberate obfuscation and misrepresentation …
Article • February 18, 2020 • from CLN March, 2020
Prosecutorial Misconduct: Justice Denied as the System Turns a Blind Eye by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis How do rogue forensic scientists and other bad cops thrive in our criminal justice system? The simple answer is that some prosecutors turn a blind eye to such misconduct because they’re more interested …
Article • December 19, 2019 • from CLN January, 2020
New York Court of Appeals Overturns Murder Conviction, Finds Prosecutor Withheld Critical Video Evidence in Violation of Brady Obligations by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The New York Court of Appeals overturned a murder conviction on postconviction review, finding that the State’s failure to provide surveillance video of the crime …
Man Freed Who Sat in Prison Nearly 30 Years While Prosecutors Withheld Evidence of Innocence by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A man who sat in prison for almost 30 years because prosecutors and police withheld evidence that someone else committed the crime was set free July 16, 2019, after …
Article • November 16, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
How the Secretive 'Discipline' Process for Federal Prosecutors Buries Misconduct Cases by Brooke Williams, Samata Joshi, Shawn Musgrave by Brooke Williams, Samata Joshi and Shawn Musgrave This October 10, 2019 article is republished with permission from The Intercept, an award-winning nonprofit news organization dedicated to holding the powerful accountable through fearless, adversarial journalism. …
Article • August 19, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Sixth Circuit: Prosecutor’s Numerous Improper Comments Constitute Flagrant Misconduct Depriving Defendants of a Fair Trial by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated the conviction of two defendants on possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine charges because the prosecutor’s numerous improper comments …
Police, Prosecutor Misconduct Continues Unabated as Evidenced by Record Number of Exonerations in 2018 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to an analysis of the National Registry of Exonerations performed by the Death Penalty Information Center, a record 151 exonerations were reported in 2018. Victims of wrongful homicide convictions …
Ohio Mayor’s Courts Are Huge Sources of Unjust Revenues by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon U.S. jurisprudence generally strives to avoid conflicting interests and even the appearance of impropriety. This practice apparently does not apply to the system of mayor’s courts in Ohio. Reminiscent of ancient Star Chamber of England, …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Hawai’i Supreme Court: Cumulative Effect of Multiple Instances of Prosecutorial Misconduct Requires Reversal by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Hawai’i reversed the murder conviction of Iosefa Meafua Pasene due to the cumulative effect of multiple instances of prosecutorial misconduct. In the early morning hours of March …
When Prosecuting Crimes by Police, Feds Appear to Move Slowly by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  In November 2013, Hickory, North Carolina, police Sergeant Robert George allegedly removed a woman driver from her auto and slammed her face-first onto the ground. She required corrective surgery.  Charged by local prosecutors in …
Misconduct by prosecutors is rampant — how do we deter it? by Mike Fawer by Mike Fawer, The Lens, Opinion https://thelensnola.org/2019/04/11/misconduct-by-prosecutors-is-rampant-how-do-we-deter-it/ I have been involved in the criminal justice system for almost 60 years, initially as a federal prosecutor, but for the greater portion of my career as a criminal …
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