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Project director Steve Weinberg, a University of Missouri journalism professor on leave, said researchers found and analyzed 11,458 appellate rulings in which prosecutor misconduct was raised as ...
It is tempting to see prosecutorial misconduct as a less urgent problem than the front end of the justice system — the encounters between suspects and police that have become the subject of ...
The NBC 10 I-Team has learned that a court-appointed investigator held a private hearing Thursday, as he looks into an ...
Prosecutorial misconduct, error-pone judge's decision prompt appeals court to overturn homicide conviction The prosecution 'did not engage in misconduct at any point of the trial,' wrote the ...
But misconduct locks up too many innocent people. ... Ken Anderson, the prosecutor who cost Morton a quarter-century of his freedom, was sentenced to just 10 days for his corruption.
Prosecutor misconduct, whether negligent, reckless or intentional, has evaded scrutiny, and the lack of data is a far more significant issue when there is virtually no data at all.
As part of a conference titled, "The American Prosecutor: Power, Discretion and Accountability," the panelists talked about prosecutorial misconduct. In recent years, studies by investigative ...
With the Second Circuit’s recent reversal of the insider trading convictions in the Squawk Box case, United States v. Mahaffey, et al, the trade ...
California courts last year found that Los Angeles County prosecutors withheld evidence, intentionally misled jurors or committed other types of misconduct in 31 criminal cases, according to an ...
Born in a time when prosecutorial misconduct was a little-discussed feature of the criminal justice system, the process is highly obscure, handled by court-appointed committees that conduct their ...