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Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
Prosecutorial, police and expert witness misconduct are a blight on the nation’s adversarial criminal trial process.
The ideal purpose of a criminal trial should be a search for truth and justice, but given the overwhelming competing interests in the…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct | Sex Crimes | Sexual Abuse
The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded 1855 exonerations to date. Roughly 15 percent of them involved false sexual assault cases. DNA exonerations in the sexual assault cases reveal a much higher percentage of wrongful convictions.
Rape is a…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Rules 16 and 26.2 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Jencks Act (18 U.S.C. §3500), Brady v. Maryland, and Giglio v. United States impose upon all federal prosecutors an obligation to disclose exculpatory and impeachment information.
DOJ…
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct
Some diseases are incurable. People recognize that harsh reality.
The Williamson County District Attorney’s Office is apparently suffering from a potentially incurable affliction: prosecutorial misconduct. Its symptoms are varied, but include: lack of intelligence, foolishness, denseness, arrogance, hubris, immorality,…
Category: Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) monitors lawless local police departments and state prisons across the country – and there are plenty of them in need of oversight.
In a June 6, 2016 opinion piece, To Stop Bad Prosecutors Call…
Category: Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Keeping African Americans off juries in criminal case is not a new phenomenon. In fact, currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is the case of Timothy Foster—a teenager convicted in a 1987 capital trial in Rome, Georgia during which…
Category: Appeals | Capital Crimes | Prosecutorial Misconduct
It was a good decision, that is, for Michael Wearry. The U.S. Supreme Court on March 7, 2016 reversed the Louisiana death row inmate’s conviction.
The high court found that prosecutors had engaged in misconduct in their handling of…
Category: Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2011, DNA results completely exonerated Michael Morton as the killer of his wife. Morton had spent nearly 25 years in the Texas prison system because of the wrongful conviction.
Former Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley was directly…
Category: DWI | Prosecutorial Misconduct
What’s going on with the D.A. Mark Skurka’s Office in Corpus Christi?
The Corpus Christi District Attorney’s Office has a serious problem with prosecutorial misconduct, or, at least, the persistent appearance of it. It is a subject we tackled…
Category: Murder | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 1994, former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta prosecuted former prison guard Robert Carter and Anthony Graves for the murder of a Somerville family of six who were killed in April 1992. The murder victims included a well-liked woman…
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