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prosecutor misconduct
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The Right Coast
Prosecutors with Absolute PowerMaimon Schwarzschild
Mark Steyn offers half a dozen reforms to improve the US justice system and rein in the stupendous powers of prosecutors - powers that are now all too easily abused:1)…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Will former border agents Ramos and Compean get a commutation?
Main July 19, 2007Will former border agents Ramos and Compean get a commutation?Following up on this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the prosecution and sentencing of former border agents…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Cornyn and Feinstein Seek Pardons of Border Patrol Agents
The Austin Statesman (here) reports that two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urged President Bush on Wednesday to commute the prison sentences of a pair of former Border Patrol…
Legal Profession Blog
Disciplinary Charges Against Prosecutor
The Illinois ARDC has recently filed charges against the former elected State's Attorney of Jo Daviess County. According to the allegations, the prosecutor "personally prosecuted the majority of criminal felony…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Prosecutors gone wild
Main July 12, 2007Prosecutors gone wildThis AP story chronicles the latest saga in the sad tale that is the Genarlow Wilson case (details in this archive) out of Georgia. Here…
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
A Prosecutor’s Take on Mike Nifong
I’ve been thinking about posting about Mike Nifong’s disbarment, but before I got around to it, I ran across this excellent piece from an Austin prosecutor: I don't believe in…
Legal Profession Blog
Prosecutor Prosecuted
As the ethical implications of prosecutorial misconduct has been a topic of interest of late, it is worth noting that a disciplinary case was recently tried in the District of…
The Contingency
Duke Prosecutor Nifong Guilty of “Dishonesty, Fraud, Deceit, and Misrepresentation”
Stories here and here. Previous post here. The three-member bar panel will likely decide later today -- if it hasn't already -- whether to disbar Nifong. Barry Barnett So long,…
The Contingency
Turn in Your Law License, Mr. Nifong
The district attorney who abused his office to prosecute Duke lacrosse players for a rape that never happened said today, in his trial on ethics charges, that he will resign…
The Right Coast
Miscarriages of Justice and Media BiasMaimon Schwarzschild
Are abuses of prosecution, and miscarriages of justice, more likely when most of the news media are intensely partisan (on one side)? Recently we have had the Duke "rape" case</a>;…