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Legal Profession Blog
Life After Nifong
The North Carolina State Bar has filed a complaint alleging ethics violations by the former Durham County District Attorney.The complaint charges that the DA directed an investigator to make misleading…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Statement of Williams & Connolly on DOJ’s “Laughable” Punishment of Ted Stevens’s Prosecutors
By Ellen Podgor
The Statement of Williams Connolly LLP, through Rob Cary, Brendan Sullivan, and Simon Latcovich, truly speaks for itself. We will have more to come on the DOJ's actions.(wisenberg)
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Death as bargaining chip? Ohio prosecutor slammed”
Main May 16, 2012"Death as bargaining chip? Ohio prosecutor slammed"The title of this post is the headline of this notable new AP article. Here are excerpts: Within days of a…
Legal Profession Blog
On Call In Christian County
An Assistant State's Attorney for Christian County has been charged by the Illinois Administrator with usurping the role of judge:In his position as an Assistant State's Attorney in Christian County,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Remarkable new trial order in remarkable federal prosecution over house cleaner
Main April 30, 2012Remarkable new trial order in remarkable federal prosecution over house cleanerA helpful reader altered me to a remarkable 50-page order issued last week by Judge Douglas Woodlock…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“High court should hearRubashkinto consider overzealous DOJ and judge who was essentially on prosecution team”
Main April 30, 2012"High court should hear Rubashkin to consider overzealous DOJ and judge who was essentially on prosecution team"The title of this post is drawn from the subheading of…
EvidenceProf Blog
The Good Wife, The Court Of Inquiry, The JFK Assassination, The Battle Of Little Big Horn & Ken Anderson
By Colin Miller
I finally caught up with last week's episode of "The Good Wife." In the episode, "The Penalty Box,"DNA evidence has once again shaken things up in the Chicago legal world this week as…
Legal Profession Blog
The Unsafe Safe
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has disbarred an assistant district attorney convicted on his nolo contendre plea to the charge of embezzlement by a officer.The Newkirk Herald Jounrnal had this report…
Legal Profession Blog
Hand Slam Leads To Bench Slap
The Delaware Supreme Court reversed a conviction for attempted robbery in the first degree, holding that the prosecutor's closing rebuttal argument improperly vouched for the State's case.The opinion describes a…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
The Department of Justice and the Culture of Non-Disclosure
By Ellen Podgor
We don't need new legislation insuring that defendants receive the exculpatory information they are entitled to under the U.S. Constitution, because the DOJ has learned its lesson from the Ted…