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LA: Caddo Parish in Spotlight Again, This Time for Discriminating Against Black Jurors

LA: Caddo Parish in Spotlight Again, This Time for Discriminating Against Black Jurors

by Sophie | Aug 17, 2015 | The Open File Blog

First it was for acquiring automatic M-16 rifles by falsifying documents to the federal government. Then it was pursuing the death penalty against mostly poor, black men (one despite evidence that the cause of death was not homicide) citing reasons that society has...
Why This Arizona Prosecutor Epitomizes What Judge Kozinski is Worried About

Why This Arizona Prosecutor Epitomizes What Judge Kozinski is Worried About

by Sophie | Jul 5, 2015 | Arizona, The Open File Blog

Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit has published a stunning law review article in the Georgetown Law Journal that gives us numerous reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just – among them, evidence that prosecutors do not play...
Caddo Parish DA Cox: The King of the Death Penalty

Caddo Parish DA Cox: The King of the Death Penalty

by Sophie | Jul 1, 2015 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog

In its new issue next week, The New Yorker will publish an important story about Caddo Parish interim District Attorney Dale Cox and the extreme racial bias of the context in which his office hands down death sentences – lots of them. It’s online now and...
The Ongoing Fallout from the Jailhouse Snitch Scandal in Orange County

The Ongoing Fallout from the Jailhouse Snitch Scandal in Orange County

by Sophie | Mar 20, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog

It’s been a busy week since an Orange County judge found that local law enforcement and prosecutors relied on unconstitutional practices involving jailhouse informants to seek a death sentence in the case of Scott Dekraai and ruled that the Orange County...
CA: Prosecutor’s Fabrication is Tip of the Iceberg When It Comes to Government Misconduct in Kern County

CA: Prosecutor’s Fabrication is Tip of the Iceberg When It Comes to Government Misconduct in Kern County

by Sophie | Mar 9, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog

Last year, we wrote about Deputy District Attorney Robert Murray of Kern County, who inserted two very incriminating lines into a defendant’s statement regarding the allegations of child molestation that were pending against him. A subsequent bar complaint...
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