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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2018, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner established the Philadelphia Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) in his office—a unit set up by Krasner to investigate claims of innocence and wrongful convictions. Krasner’s CIU has exonerated twenty-two wrongfully convicted persons.
According to…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The National Registry of Exonerations (“NRE”) is a combined project of the University of Michigan Law School, Michigan State University College of Law, and the University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society. “The Registry collects, analyzes, and…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct | Uncategorized
Justice delayed is indeed justice denied. Lamar Johnson has seen justice delayed for more than a quarter of a century, and to this day and in the foreseeable future, he will experience justice denied.
In October 1994, Marcus Byrd and…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
Former Harris County prosecutor Kelly Siegler worked in the District Attorney’s Office between 1987 and 2008. During that two-decade prosecutorial career, Siegler prosecuted more than 200 cases before juries—68 of them were murder cases, and 20 of the murder…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Justice Reform | Discovery 39.14 | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Pretrial discovery in criminal cases in Texas is governed by Article 39.14 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. The Texas Legislature enacted the discovery statute in 1965. The essential purpose of the rule was to enforce the strict duty…
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In service to his client, President Donald J. Trump, New York-based attorney Rudy Giuliani has openly boasted about the lengths he would go to support his client. Mr. Giuliani has admitted lying for the President, working with Russian intelligence operatives …
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In a June 4, 2020 post, we called for the impeachment of U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr because of his role in the government’s criminal assault on June 1, 2020, of peaceful George Floyd protesters in Lafayette Park outside…
Category: Corruption | Prosecutorial Misconduct
We posted an October 20, 2020 piece calling for the resignation of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. We said the attorney general “is not morally, ethically, or legally fit to hold public office in the Lone Star State. He is…
Category: Corruption | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Williamson County District Attorney Shawn Dick was sworn into office on January 1, 2017. He immediately faced daunting challenges. The three district attorneys before him (Jane Duty, John Bradley, and Ken Anderson) all had serious problems with confirmed instances of…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct | SCOTUS
Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the murders of four people in the small northern Mississippi town of Winona. The murders at the local Tardy Furniture Store occurred on July 16, 1996. The 26-year-old African-American Flowers was arrested for…
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