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EvidenceProf Blog
Sympathy For The Devil: Fifth Circuit Upholds Defendant’s Drug Convictions In Easter Case
By Colin Miller
The Fifth Circuit's recent opinion in United States v. Whittington, 2008 WL 659150 (5th Cir. 2008), seems to me to underplay the prejudicial effect of comments made by a prosecutor…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
The Falling of the Enron Case House of the Cards
By Ellen Podgor
The first card in the falling of the government's house of Enron cases occurred yesterday, as Jeffrey Skilling's supplemental brief was unsealed. And one finds within this brief a shocking…
EvidenceProf Blog
D.C. Follies: District Court For The District of Columbia Misapplies Brady Doctrine In Drug Bust Case
By Colin Miller
The D.C. Circuit's recent opinion in United States v. Johnson, 2008 WL 638614 (D.C. Cir. 2008), lays bare another district court's failure to properly apply the Brady doctrine, derived from…
Legal Profession Blog
Bar Discipline Consequences of Eliot Spitzer’s Possible Criminal Charges
Posted by Alan ChildressAs Gov. Spitzer resigned just now, effective Monday, news organizations and blogs are speculating on possible disbarment to come. One brief post which helpfully lays out the…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
U.S. Attorney Firings — The Book
By Ellen Podgor
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico, one of the seven (or eight or even nine) federal prosecutors fired by the Department of Justice in 2006, will be publishing…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Zach Scruggs, Meet Frank Costello
By Ellen Podgor
Mob boss Frank Costello, one--time head of the Luciano crime family, faced charges in the 1950s for tax evasion, the favored means to attack the Mafia before the advent of…
Legal Profession Blog
Prosecutor Reprimanded
An assistant prosecuting attorney for Wayne County Michigan was reprimanded by consent for the following described misconduct: "he failed to follow department guidelines for dismissing a felony firearm charge in…
Legal Profession Blog
Well Conceived Defense Not Ineffective Assistance
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a conviction for first degree murder, rejecting claims of prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The court concluded that the prosecutor crossed…
EvidenceProf Blog
Evidence And Ethics 16: Professor Mosteller’s The Duke Lacrosse Case, Innocence, and False Identifications: A Fundamental Failure To “Do Justice.”
By Colin Miller
The contribution of Duke University School of Law Professor Robert P. Mosteller to the Evidence and Ethics Sympoisum is his article, The Duke Lacrosse Case, Innocence, and False Identifications: A…
EvidenceProf Blog
Evidence And Ethics 6: Professor Giannelli and Professor McMunigal’s Prosecutors, Ethics, and Expert Witnesses
By Colin Miller
The contribution of Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professors Paul C. Giannelli and Kevin C. McMunigal to the Evidence and Ethics Symposium is their article, Prosecutors, Ethics, and…