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 | Dec 21, 2018 | Louisiana
Social media certainly presents some tricky questions for lawyers, but many prosecutors around the country have hardly hesitated or bothered to ask themselves how the Rules of Professional Conduct might come into play when they publicize case-related information. The...
by OpenFile | Dec 7, 2018 | Louisiana
The Louisiana federal prosecutor known for his prolific online rants (about cases his office was prosecuting, no less) has been held to account by the state’s highest court. Six years after former senior litigation counsel Sal Perricone of the U.S. Attorney’s...
by Bert | Apr 25, 2018 | Louisiana, Oregon
Only two jurisdictions in the country permit a criminal conviction on the vote of a non-unanimous jury: Oregon and Louisiana. In both states, the constitutional and statutory provisions allowing just 10 of 12 jurors to send someone to prison were powered by racial...
by Bert | Apr 19, 2018 | Louisiana
Our long-running fascination with Brady violations in Louisiana—well-documented in many, many of our posts over the years—is not only based on our website’s genesis (the U.S. Supreme Court’s remarkably discouraging opinion about prosecutorial accountability in Connick...
by Bert | Oct 24, 2017 | Louisiana
Louisiana is often featured on the Open File. The jurisdiction is a hotbed of prosecutorial misconduct, and compelling stories emerge from it with regularity. In 2016, we wrote: Even casual criminal justice observers know that Louisiana has a uniquely sordid history...
