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prosecutor misconduct
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White Collar Crime Prof Blog
The Government’s “Sauce for the Gander” Argument in the Enron Conspiracy Trial
By Ellen Podgor
The street fight in the Enron conspiracy prosecution continues, according to a Wall Street Journal article (here). After the defense alleged that prosecutors acted improperly by discouraging potential defense witnesses…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Has the Enron Task Force Put the Prosecution in Jeopardy?
By Ellen Podgor
Tom Kirkendall on the Houston's Clear Thinkers blog has a post about the latest defense filing in the conspiracy prosecution of Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Richard Causey seeking dismissal…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Back to Court for Scrushy?
By Ellen Podgor
On the TV lawyer shows, once the jury announces a not guilty verdict -- the outcome of both Matlock episodes I've watched -- everyone leave the courtroom and nothing further…
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Overreaching By Prosecutors
By Ellen Podgor
The NYTimes has a story here, that speaks to prosecutions in white collar cases, specifically those by Spitzer's office (although Arthur Andersen is lumped into the picture). It is a…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
More On the So-Called Detroit Terrorism Trial
By Ellen Podgor
The so-called Detroit Terrorism trial, which ended with the government admitting that its theory of prosecution was unsupported by the evidence, resulted in an apology by outgoing Deputy Attorney General…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Spy Case Dismissed for Prosecutorial Misconduct in Plea Agreement
By Ellen Podgor
The government's efforts to keep one defendant away from another by inserting a clause in a plea agreement forbidding the cooperating defendant from speaking with the other defendant's lawyer has…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Interrogating Defense Lawyers in Russia
By Ellen Podgor
Here's a scary thought: Defense counsel are called before prosecutors and perhaps even threatened with prosecution if they do not answer questions about their clients who are involved in a…
CrimProf Blog
Seventh Circuit Rules That Feds Acted in Bad Faith in Denying Sentence Reduction to Defendant
In U.S. v. Wilson, issued last week, the Seventh Circuit found that federal prosecutors acted in bad faith in denying a sentence reduction to a defendant for "substantial assistance." The…
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Investigation of Prosecutorial Misconduct
By Ellen Podgor
An article in the Detroit News (Dec. 3) discusses the expansion of a criminal investigation of Richard Convertino, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan, for his…
CrimProf Blog
Prosecutor’s Bloody Re-enactment of Murder Scene Scrutinized on Appeal
The alleged prejudicial nature of a prosecutor's 20-minute trial re-enactment of a grisly stabbing scene, complete with blood-soaked props, is at issue on appeal in a Texas homicide case. The…