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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…
Category: Drug Trafficking | Prosecutorial Misconduct
On June 26, 2017, the Boston Globe carried a report about a Springfield, Massachusetts judge who vacated several drug convictions because of misconduct by two former state prosecutors involved in the drug cases.
Judge Richard J. Carey of Hampden…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court in Brady v. Maryland held that criminal prosecutors must disclose evidence favorable to a defendant, upon his or her request, that is material to either guilt or punishment.
In 1985, the Supreme Court…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2013, the Texas Legislature enacted the Michael Morton Act. The Act, which became effective January 1, 2014, requires Texas prosecutors to open their files, provide copies of certain information for defense discovery and to keep records of all the…
Category: Indecency With A Child | Prosecutorial Misconduct | Sexual Assault
THE POLICE AND FABRICATION OF EVIDENCE
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the police from fabricating evidence; that the courts still have to remind law enforcement of this basic premise speaks volumes about how intrinsic corruption is…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The landmark decision Brady v. Maryland was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963. The decision held that, under the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments, a prosecutor has a duty to disclose favorable evidence to defendants upon request, if…
Category: Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The wheels of justice turn inexorably slow, but they do turn.
The day of justice reckoning has arrived for John Jackson, a former district attorney and district judge in Navarro County that encompasses the small Texas town, Corsicana.…
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