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	<title>CRIMINAL JURISDICTION &#187; rogue prosecutors</title>
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		<title>THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF A BRADY VIOLATION</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disciplinary Action against Rogue Prosecutors Who Intentionally Engage in Wrongful Conduct, Brady Violations Rare

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Among lawyers practicing criminal law, “Brady violation” is probably second only to a “Miranda warning” as the most recognizable legal term in this country’s jurisprudence; and, significantly, both of these U.S. Supreme Court decisions are designed to curb prosecutorial and law enforcement misconduct. It’s an unfortunate commentary on our criminal justice system when these two important must be instructed by the highest court in the nation to obey the law and uphold our most cherished constitutional tenets: right to a fair trial and right to counsel.]]></description>
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		<title>ROGUE PROSECUTORS GET LICENSE TO LIE AND CHEAT</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2011/04/01/rogue-prosecutors-get-license-to-lie-and-cheat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connick v. Thompson: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Prosecutors to Hide Evidence Favorable to the Accused without Consequence

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

John Thompson spent over 18 years in a Louisiana prison, 14 isolated on death role, after a prosecution described as fundamentally unfair by prosecutorial design.  
In Thompson’s struggle for justice, prosecutors intentionally withheld favorable evidence, which indicated he was innocent, prior to trial, during trial and throughout the years he spent in prison.  The Supreme Court has now held this was not a civil rights violation.   ]]></description>
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		<title>REFORM CAN SOMETIMES BE BAD MEDICINE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/12/01/reform-can-sometimes-be-bad-medicine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Houston Criminal Lawyer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anonymous Inside Sources Criticize Harris County District Attorney

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Like all cold and flu medicine, “reform” at the governmental level sometimes gags those resistant to changing practices and policies away from the bad toward the good. Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos was elected on the theme that she would introduce “reform” to the district attorney’s office and put an end to the often illegal and unethical practices of the “convict at any cost” which hallmarked the former administrations of Charles “Chuck” Rosenthal and his predecessor Johnny Holmes. The trial of a criminal case is controlled by three entities: the judge, the prosecutor, and the defense counsel. To be effective and responsible, each entity must do their job in an honest, decent, and fair way. That was seldom the case under Rosenthal and Holmes.]]></description>
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		<title>PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT-THE SCOURGE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2010/10/09/prosecutorial-misconduct-the-scourge-of-the-criminal-justice-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thompson v. Connick; Jury Awards 14 Million Dollars to Man Who Served 18 Years in Prison for Crime he Did Not Commit After Prosecutors Hid Favorable Evidence

By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair

Last year the U.S. Supreme Court in Van de Kamp v. Goldstein effectively reinforced a longstanding constitutional rule of law that prosecutors who engaged in unethical and criminal misconduct to secure criminal convictions are immunized from civil liability. They are protected by the doctrine of absolute immunity which insulates public officials from civil liability when performing their official duties, even if their conduct is unethical and criminal so long as the conduct is carried out within the scope of the official’s duties.]]></description>
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		<title>NO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PROSECUTORS GONE ROGUE</title>
		<link>http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2009/11/13/no-accountability-for-prosecutors-gone-rogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johntfloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The primary ethical and legal duty of a criminal prosecutor is to serve the interests of justice—not their personal interests of winning at any costs as is too often the case with a many prosecutors. This was made clear in October 2008 in the federal prosecution of then-Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for high-profile corruption charges. The federal prosecutors in the case were determined to bring down one of the most powerful lawmakers in this country—at any costs. D.C. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan lambasted those prosecutors at the time saying that in his 25 years on the bench he had “never seen mishandling and misconduct like what I have seen” in Sen. Stevens’ case. The federal judge was so incensed at the prosecutorial misconduct that he appointed an outside attorney named Henry Schuelke to investigate the Stevens prosecutors for possible “criminal contempt.” The matter was essentially resolved when current U.S. Attorney Eric Holder requested, and secured, a reversal of Sen. Stevens’ conviction from Judge Sullivan earlier this year.]]></description>
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