In August 2013, Greg Kelley, an outstanding football athlete, was arrested on the campus of Leander High School in Leander, Texas, located in Williamson and Travis Counties. He was charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old boy at a daycare center…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Top officials of the Trump administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr, claim there is no “systemic racism” in law enforcement in this country. Yet the conservative Republican group, the Lincoln Project, recently called Trump the “second president” of the…
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
How much should a state be required to pay a person it wrongfully convicts and keeps in prison for 43 years?
The State of Florida wrongfully convicted Nathan Meyers and his uncle, Clifford Williams, for a 1976 murder they…
2020
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Roughly 15 parents have thus far elected not to plead guilty in the “college admissions scandal.”
While federal prosecutors have increased their pressure campaign against actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli, along with nine other…
2020
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Winona, a town of slightly more than 5,000 people, sits right in the center of the northern part of Mississippi. It is known as the “Crossroads of North Mississippi” located in Montgomery County.
The town reflects what award-winning author…
2019
Category: Obstruction of Justice | Prosecutorial Misconduct
William “Bill” Barr: An U.S. Attorney General History Will Judge Harshly
Founded in 1928, Opus Dei is a powerful and almost cult-like Catholic organization that “uses secrecy and manipulation to advance its agenda.” One of its 3,000 U.S. members…
2019
Category: Murder | Prosecutorial Misconduct
There was little doubt that Anthony Rashad George participated in the November 2016 robbery of 46-year-old Brian Sample in a North Dallas, Texas luxury hotel. A second person, Rodney Range, was also charged with capital murder for participating in that…
2019
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
Unscrupulous prosecutors engage in misconduct in criminal proceedings because they know that they will, in all likelihood, get away with it—and if by happenstance their misconduct should be exposed, there are little threat that will be held professionally accountable for…
2019
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 1935, roughly 85 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Berger v. United States made this oft-quoted observation about a prosecutor’s duty to conduct themselves in a fair, impartial, and most importantly an ethical manner in a criminal trial:…
2019
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2003, three men were indicted for capital murder in connection with the April 3rd murders of two people during an attempted robbery of a Harris County business, ACE America’s Cash Express. One of the victims was an employee at…