by Bert | Sep 27, 2018 | Indiana
A bit of good news on the accountability front emerged late last month out of Indiana. The Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission recently handed down an order suspending former Porter County deputy prosecutor Trista Hudson from the state bar following...
by Bert | Jan 25, 2018 | Indiana
Two weeks ago, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the death sentence of Frederick Michael Baer, who was found guilty of killing a young mother and her daughter in Madison County, Indiana. The court held that Madison County’s elected District Attorney,...
by Bert | Jul 28, 2016 | Indiana
The Indiana Court of Appeals last week affirmed a man’s attempted rape conviction but also took the unusual step of reprimanding an overzealous prosecutor at the same time. The case arose from Delaware County, Indiana. In his closing arguments at the trial of Santiago...
by Alec | Dec 2, 2014 | Indiana, The Open File Blog
Rebuking a remarkable act of prosecutorial legerdemain, the Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed the burglary conviction of a St. Joseph County man, holding that “the State knowingly proffered perjured testimony” from his ex-girlfriend, who had earlier pled guilty as...
by OpenFile | Jul 25, 2014 | Indiana, The Open File Blog
“Prosecutorial misconduct is far too common in Marion County,” writes Indiana University law professor Joel Schumm in a recent post for Indiana Law Blog, “…what is lost in the Ryan opinion — and most other opinions involving prosecutorial...
by OpenFile | Apr 15, 2014 | District of Columbia, Hawaii, Indiana, The Open File Blog
The late disclosure of favorable evidence by prosecutors has been the theme in a number of recent cases out of Hawaii, Indiana and Washington D.C. In some of these cases, exculpatory evidence was withheld until the eve of trial; in another, impeaching evidence...
