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Prosecutors
94 published works
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Are There Stories Prosecutors Shouldn't Tell?: The Duty to Avoid Racialized Trial Narratives"
The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper authored by Olwyn Conway now available via SSRN. Here's the abstract: The purportedly race-neutral actions of courts…
Simple Justice
What Will It Take For California To Discipline Former ADA Linda Allen?
Six years in San Quentin and a stabbing passed before Jamal Trulove was retried and acquitted. In his second trial, the prosecutor wasn’t allowed to lie. The jury found Trulove…
Criminal
Federal plea deal on civil rights charges reportedly in the works for Derek Chauvin
This new local press piece, headlined "Derek Chauvin Closing In On Federal Plea Deal, Sources Tell WCCO," reports on an unsurprising but still interesting development in the legal sagas around…
Criminal
“The False Hope of the Progressive-Prosecutor Movement”
The title of this post is the title of this recent notable Atlantic piece by Darcy Covert that is summarized via its subheadline: "Well-intentioned reformers can’t fix the criminal legal…
Simple Justice
Federal Judges By Resume
At Sentencing Law and Policy, Doug Berman does a recap of statistics of the former positions held by federal judicial nominees. The question posed was whether President Biden will make…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
District Court Judge Who Promised to “Crush” the Plaintiff’s Attorney Is Assigned Off of Case by Fifth Circuit
In Miller v. Sam Houston State Univ., No. 19-20752 (5th Cir. Jan. 29, 2021), the panel holds that a district court judge’s behavior in a pair of cases fell so…
Commercial Litigation Update
The Harsh Reality of the “Trial Penalty” in Federal Prosecutions
Most have heard the cliché “don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.” For many criminal defendants, however, a significant factor in the time served is not just…
The Faculty Lounge
Among Sidney Powell’s Distinctions
Both the Washington Post and New York Times have published profiles of Sidney Powell. The Post reports: At the age of 23, Powell was hired as an assistant U.S. attorney…
The Right Coast
Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud – Axios
Former Trump administration chief strategist Steve Bannon was charged on Thursday with fraud by federal prosecutors in New York and taken into custody.The state of play: Bannon, along with three…
The Right Coast
St. Louis prosecutor targeting McCloskeys gets $78,000 infusion from Soros-linked group | Just The News
The Missouri Justice Public Safety PAC, which is linked to George Soros, has donated nearly $78,000 in contributions to St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's 2020 campaign, according to her July 15, 2020…