by Bert | Oct 3, 2019 | Louisiana, Oregon
In addition to run-of-the-mill misconduct, our blog often draws attention to cases in which prosecutors make questionable claims. It happens with surprising regularity; it turns out that prosecutors are often willing to take seemingly indefensible positions if it...
by Bert | Aug 21, 2019 | Kansas
After reading all 188 pages of Judge Julie Robinson’s opinion addressing how prosecutors have dealt with the multi-year attorney-client phone/visit-recording scandal in Kansas, it is astonishing that the US Attorney’s Office in Kansas continues to employ so many of...
by Bert | Aug 9, 2019 | Missouri
“The facts presented by the underlying crime are appalling and horrifying.” That is a line not from the Missouri Supreme Court’s majority opinion affirming the death sentence of Craig Wood, but instead from the dissent. And it is undeniably true. The evidence that Mr....
by Bert | Jul 29, 2019 | Oregon
Two weeks ago, a news report in Oregon announced that a judge found senior prosecutors in Multnomah County had violated their obligation to turn over exculpatory evidence in a high-profile murder case. Rather than encourage law enforcement to do the right thing and...
by Bert | Jun 20, 2019 | New York
A Suffolk County prosecutor in Long Island, NY recently lost his job, evidently because he poorly represented the State in a recent high-profile criminal prosecution and withheld exculpatory evidence. Late last month, leaders in the DA’s office came to court in the...
