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The Orange County District Attorney’s Office recently came under fire after it was discovered that prosecutors were using a secret program in which law enforcement would place informants in jail cells with defendants in order to convince them to unwittingly give up information that could be used against them in their cases. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 2:40 am
But choosing to destroy or limit testing of evidence in order to avoid those errors from being discovered surely borders on malicious: Certainly it's unfair, unjust, and simply bad public policy.It strikes me that Texas prosecutors appear to be far ahead of their brethren among the feds and in other states at concocting methods to avoid successful innocence claims. [read post]
28 Oct 2012, 9:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas A&M's Public Policy Research Institute has completed and published a two-year study (pdf) analyzing outcomes and costs at Texas' oldest public defender office in Wichita Falls, and the document is filled with fascinating data. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 3:05 pm
A case of officers being charged with a crime is difficult not only for prosecutors, but for the public to believe. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 7:12 pm by Steve Graham
In that year, Lynda Eaton was an assistant public defender working for Rebecca Baker. [read post]
8 Jul 2021, 1:51 pm by Somil Trivedi
However, it’s telling that MCAO says to the public that it supports helping people in need of treatment while quietly, quickly, and illegally convicting those people instead. [read post]
29 May 2024, 1:24 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, also addressed a letter prosecutors sent to the judge l ast week asking him to remind Weinstein’s lawyers not to discuss or disparage potential witnesses in public ahead of the retrial. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 2:44 am by SHG
 Most criminal defense lawyers were once baby prosecutors or baby public defenders, scratching and sniffing their way through the system. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 6:41 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
A Glendale police officer who was caught on video kicking a juvenile in the face while he was pinned down inside the Galleria mall has been charged with assault, prosecutors said Monday. [read post]
5 Jul 2016, 4:42 am by Benjamin Herbst
The compliant requests that the city’s top criminal prosecutor be disbarred over her handling of the cases against five officers charged after the death of Freddie Gray. [read post]
2 Jan 2007, 6:47 am
Cholakis who spend a good deal of their career as prosecutors are dedicated public servants who have chosen a career without regard to financial remuneration. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 10:24 am
While under Van de Kamp a chief prosecutor cannot be sued for the officeâââ [read post]
19 May 2021, 2:01 pm by Shea Denning
Recent well-publicized incidents have led to questions about when a law enforcement officer may use deadly force to seize a fleeing suspect. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 5:30 am
Before becoming the first executive director of the indigent defense council, Mears, a former mayor of Decatur, headed the Multicounty Public Defender Office, which represented capital defendants across the state for a decade. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 5:36 am by Jonathan Abel
In light of the enormous public trust placed in police officers, I don’t see how they have any privacy interest in keeping on-the-job misconduct secret. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 8:43 am
But this does show what could be the balance of power between police officers and prosecutors when it comes to Jacksonville Theft Cases. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 8:09 am by Rick Hasen
Investigators prepared a report in… Continue reading The post “Arizona’s top prosecutor concealed records debunking election fraud claims; Newly released documents show how Republican Mark Brnovich publicized an incomplete account of his office’s probe of the 2020 election in Maricopa County” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
24 Feb 2022, 10:35 am by Eugene Volokh
.), which stemmed from police officer Doe's being fired—wrongly so, he claims—and being placed on the "Exculpatory Evidence Schedule" (also known in New Hampshire as the "Laurie List"), in which his disciplinary record would be disclosed by prosecutors to defense lawyers whenever he testifies. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 9:40 am by John Floyd
A prosecutor has a special duty to see that justice is done, not just pile up convictions for the office. [read post]