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Prosecutors
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Asset Search Blog
Asset Search News Roundup: November 16, 2009
By Fred Abrams
A tax filing at the "Financials Page" of its website reveals that the Alavi Foundation had assets in 2007 with a fair market value of nearly $88 million. Federal prosecutors…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Postville Prosecutor Moves Toward Senate Confirmation
Stephanie Rose, who was one of the prosecutors in the controversial Postville raid cases last year, is headed to the U.S. Senate for confirmation as the U.S. Attorney for the…
Legal Profession Blog
Suspension For False Testimony
The full Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court yesterday remanded a bar discipline matter to a single justice with direction to impose a six-month suspension of an assistant district attorney found to…
EvidenceProf Blog
No Emergency Exit: Florida Prosecutors Dismiss Animal Cruelty Case Based Upon Confrontation Clause
By Colin Miller
On Tuesday, Florida prosecutors dismissed the animal cruelty case against Josper Sanon, a decision that came two months after the 4th District Court of Appeal reversed his animal cruelty conviction…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Wecht & Jurors Talk – Commentary
By Ellen Podgor
KDKA.com has an incredible tape from jurors and also with Wecht himself talking. He hits it on the money when he notes how powerful prosecutors can be. The very fact…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
A New Venue for Minnesota USA
By Ellen Podgor
The Minnesota US Attorney, who has been in the news quite a bit lately, will be shifting her employment venue to DC. Philip Shenon (NYTimes) reports that Rachel K. Paulose…
Legal Profession Blog
Prosecutor Charged With Theft Of Evidence
The Illinois ARDC recently filed ethics charges against a former Assistant State's Attorney for Coles County. The prosecutor had been assigned to one of two cases arising out of a…
Media Law Prof Blog
Videographer Josh Wolf Out of Jail After 226 Days
After posting footage on his website that has long been desired by federal prosecutors, and also agreeing to turn it over to them, videographer Joshua Wolf has been freed from…
Sentencing Law and Policy
What should we make of the federal prosecutorial purge?
Main March 6, 2007What should we make of the federal prosecutorial purge?As detailed in this AP article, "the investigation into the Bush administration's firings of U.S. attorneys intensified yesterday as…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Prosecutors blogging generates hot discussion
Marisa Lagos of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that prosecuting attorneys have started blogs to wage online campaigns tackling issues ranging from news coverage and court decisions to politics and…