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15 Feb 2014, 6:47 am by Milena Sterio
And what about the ruse orchestrated by United Statesprosecutors to entice Ali into coming to America? [read post]
13 Mar 2018, 7:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
On Plea BargainsA coupla items here:In Australia, plea bargaining is governed by standardized rules overseen by judges, not by prosecutors. [read post]
25 Jun 2015, 5:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That's the core issue raised with the recent release of prosecutor assessments of alleged police officer testilying in Tarrant County DWI cases. [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 5:01 pm
Patterson, the newly chosen president of the Maryland State's Attorneys' Association, said high-profile cases such as Freeman's can be a real test for prosecutors. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 2:23 am by Michael DelSignore
The United States Supreme Court has held that jurors had no right to be told about jury nullification; however, the idea has been part of the Constitution since its formation, that citizens, may place common sense and justice above the letter of the law. [read post]
8 Aug 2019, 2:00 pm by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
  The basis for the removal, as articulated by the prosecutor, was that the jurors had had prior bad experiences with law enforcement. [read post]
30 Jul 2009, 10:24 am
 Ultimately, the issue is whether one supports prosecutors who commit misconduct; or people who are wrongfully accused of crimes.I'll have much more to say about  Pottawattamie County, but don't want the post on  State v. [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 7:15 am by Brooke
Delaware, 503 U.S. 159 (1992), the United States Supreme Court ruled in a capitol murder case that the prosecutor had violated the defendant’s First Amendment right to association by referencing the defendant’s association with the Aryan Brotherhood during sentencing. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 8:52 am
Blonde Justice's views in particular mirror some of my own concerns with this increasingly common practice:These stings are being set up in nearly every state in the country. [read post]
15 Mar 2007, 5:40 am
Alaska holds that a prosecutor's comment that the defendant refused a second test is tantamount to a comment on the defendant's right to refuse consent. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 2:34 pm
Many times, with an embezzlement charge, the police will attempt to reach an admission from the embezzler, saying the prosecutor will be lenient; however, their real plan is to convict one of a crime that the prosecutor favors. [read post]
14 May 2019, 4:21 am
Durham, the United States attorney in Connecticut, has a history of serving as a special prosecutor investigating potential wrongdoing among national security officials, including the F.B.I. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 7:15 am
In late November, the Massachusetts Attorney General and state district attorneys — in response to a lawsuit by the state’s public defenders (the Committee for Public Counsel Services), the ACLU of Massachusetts, and the law firm Fick & Marx — agreed to move forward with the dismissal of more than 8,000 drug convictions tainted by the misconduct of Sonja Farak, a former state crime lab chemist, and by the misconduct of former state… [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 6:46 am
Moreover, the state prosecutor stayed silent when the informant, under oath, testified that no promises were made of any kind. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 5:05 am by Brittany Bromell
A provision of the state’s criminal justice reform law was supposed to eliminate the use of cash bail across the state on January 1, but was put on hold after prosecutors and sheriffs in 64 counties filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the law. [read post]