Category Archives: Prosecutorial Misconduct
The Search for Justice in the Criminal Trial Process Often Obscured by Official Misconduct
Prosecutorial, police and expert witness misconduct are a blight on the nation’s adversarial criminal trial process. The ideal purpose of a criminal trial should…
Another Brady Violation: Rape Conviction Overturned After Prosecutor Intentionally Withholds Psychiatrict Report
The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded 1855 exonerations to date. Roughly 15 percent of them involved false sexual assault cases. DNA exonerations in…
U.S. Attorney’s “Blue Book” Off Limits to Criminal Defense Lawyers
Rules 16 and 26.2 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Jencks Act (18 U.S.C. §3500), Brady v. Maryland, and Giglio v. United…
Williamson County Just Can’t Get Enough Prosecutorial Misconduct
Some diseases are incurable. People recognize that harsh reality. The Williamson County District Attorney’s Office is apparently suffering from a potentially incurable affliction: prosecutorial…
Justice Department Should Investigate Bad Prosecutors
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) monitors lawless local police departments and state prisons across the country – and there are plenty of them in…
DA Exposed for Picking All-White Juries in Wharton County
Keeping African Americans off juries in criminal case is not a new phenomenon. In fact, currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is the case of…
Prosecutorial Misconduct in Death Penalty Case Causes Supreme Court to Reverse Case Without Briefs or Argument
It was a good decision, that is, for Michael Wearry. The U.S. Supreme Court on March 7, 2016 reversed the Louisiana death row inmate’s conviction. The…
Why Did Discredited Texas DA Chose Palau to Practice his Brand of Law
In 2011, DNA results completely exonerated Michael Morton as the killer of his wife. Morton had spent nearly 25 years in the Texas prison…
Yet Another Corpus Christi, Nueces County Prosecutorial Misconduct Case
What’s going on with the D.A. Mark Skurka’s Office in Corpus Christi? The Corpus Christi District Attorney’s Office has a serious problem with prosecutorial…
Prosecutor’s Disbarment for Wrongful Conviction of Anthony Graves Upheld
In 1994, former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta prosecuted former prison guard Robert Carter and Anthony Graves for the murder of a Somerville…
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