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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2013, Eric Hillman was employed as an assistant district attorney in Nueces County, Texas. Mark Skurka was the duly elected district attorney for the county at the time. He was Hillman’s employer.
In 2014, Hillman found himself…
Category: Constitutional Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the position of the Attorney General of the United States. The Organization, Mission and Functions Manual of the U.S. Department of Justice spells out the duties of the Attorney General:
Represent the United…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct | Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault
Justice is sometimes blind to justice.
Justice was indeed blind in the Brandon Lee Moon case. He served 17 years in prison as a sex offender for a crime he did not commit.
Moon was convicted in January…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
There are two safeguards against prosecutorial misconduct during a criminal trial: a good defense attorney and an impartial trial judge.
Both failed Frederick Michael Baer during his capital murder trial for the brutal murder of a 24-year-old mother and…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct | Violent Crimes | Weapon Crimes
Two and one-half years after the bloody shootout between rival biker gangs at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015 is no closer to resolution today than it was in 2015. As this blog is being…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
Some prosecutors, at both the state and federal level, find it almost irresistible to engage in misconduct when prosecuting child sexual abuse cases. Those rogue prosecutors, who have no scruples about the rule of law, might argue that the end…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The Baltimore Police Department has a history of corruption. It routinely engages in the use of excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment, planting evidence to wrongfully charge innocent suspects, and wholesale criminal racketeering.
A Case of Wrongful…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The son a district court judge in San Antonio, Nicholas “Nico” LaHood set his eyes on the District Attorney’s Office not long after leaving law school. He always wanted to be the top cop in Bexar County.
In 2010,…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and is the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She recently published an exhaustive article about prosecutorial misconduct in the Times Magazine.…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
As of July 3, 2017, the National Registry of Exonerations (“Registry”) reports there have been 2,056 exonerations of criminal defendants in this country since 1989.
166 Exonerations in 2016
This past March, the Registry released its findings of…
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