by Bert | Dec 12, 2017 | Pennsylvania
Several years ago, we covered a case in which a federal district court granted a Pennsylvania man a new trial because prosecutors failed to turn over police records relating to one of their key witnesses. It seems the witness in question had a lengthy history of being...
by Alec | Oct 23, 2014 | Pennsylvania, The Open File Blog
In a strongly worded opinion, the 3rd Circuit has vacated a conspiracy charge in a drug case, owing to the prosecutor’s cross-examination of the defendant about his silence following his arrest. The accused, a truck driver named Gathon Shannon, had invoked his 5th...