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Category: Appeals | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Firing an employee in retaliation for refusing to perform an unlawful act violates both federal (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) and Texas (Chapter 21 of the Texas Labor Code) law.
Further, the Texas Supreme Court…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The State of Nevada stands poised to become the 34th state to pass legislation providing for compensation to those wrongfully convicted of crimes. Nevada’s epiphany came after Fred Steese was exonerated in 2012 after spending more than two decades in…
Category: Appeals | Murder | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Known as the “Railroad Killer,” Angel Resendiz was no angel. During his forty-seven years on this earth, his Wikipedia entries say he killed as many as 23 people. Just weeks shy of his 40th birthday, Resendiz surrendered to Texas authorities…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Bite mark evidence has long been a discredit forensic science. The FBI has renounced it and the American Dental Association does not recognize it.
And for good reason.
In June 2013, USAToday reported that 20 men convicted or…
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…
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