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Sentencing Law and Policy
Questions about guilt phase theory of case and misconduct surround Texas death row inmate schedule for next execution
Main January 25, 2017Questions about guilt phase theory of case and misconduct surround Texas death row inmate schedule for next executionTexas is scheduled to carry out its second execution of…
Legal Profession Blog
Golden Rule: No Golden Rule Arguments
The Vermont Supreme Court has reversed a criminal conviction for in part as a result of the prosecutor's improper "Golden Rule" argumentBut the prosecutor did violate the “golden rule” by…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Former Deputy AG Phil Heymann makes full-throated pitch for Justice Department to address Rubashkin case
Main December 28, 2016Former Deputy AG Phil Heymann makes full-throated pitch for Justice Department to address Rubashkin caseLast month via this Wall Street Journal commentary, two former Justice Department officials…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Prosecutorial Misconduct: The Best Defense Is a Good Defense”
Main December 17, 2016"Prosecutorial Misconduct: The Best Defense Is a Good Defense"A helpful reader altered me to this recent on-line law review essay in which LawProf Fredrick Vars responds to…
EvidenceProf Blog
Lividity Evidence/Withheld Police Report Contradict State’s Timeline, Don’t Lead to New Trial in Ohio Case
By Colin Miller
Here's an interesting lividity/prosecutorial misconduct case out of Ohio. In State v. Montgomery, 2016 WL 6393027 (Ohio App. 2016),On the morning of March 8, 1986, the body of Cynthia Tincher was…
Legal Profession Blog
No Misconduct In Case Against Prosecutor
The Indiana Supreme Court has dismissed ethics charges brought against a prosecutor.At relevant times, Respondent served as a deputy prosecuting attorney in White County. In 2011, Respondent represented the State…
Legal Profession Blog
Prosecuted Prosecutor Lauded
The Indiana Lawyer has a story about disciplinary charges brought against an elected prosecutorJohnson County judges, lawyers and the mother of a murdered teen traveled to a distant court Wednesday…
EvidenceProf Blog
The State Shoots Itself in the Foot in its Consolidated Reply in the Adnan Syed Case
By Colin Miller
Today, the State filed a Consolidated Reply in the Adnan Syed case. The Reply once again asks the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland to (1) grant it leave to appeal Judge…
Legal Profession Blog
An Affair To Reprimand
The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board web page reportsOn September 20, 2016, the Virginia State Bar Third District Subcommittee issued a public reprimand to Cameron Heaps Ippolito for violating a…
The Right Coast
The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham | | Observer
No wonder they couldn t prosecute a case, Rep. Chaffetz observed of Comey s Bureau: They were handing out immunity deals like candy. via observer.com