by Jane | Jul 22, 2019 | New Mexico
Long-time readers of The Open File have often heard us lament that, despite Justice Thomas’s insistence that state bars are the proper avenue for dealing with prosecutorial misconduct, bar complaints are rarely filed against prosecutors and even more rarely lead to...
by Bert | Jun 1, 2016 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
Even casual criminal justice observers know that Louisiana has a uniquely sordid history when it comes to prosecutorial misconduct. On multiple occasions—as recently as March of this year, in fact—the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed Louisiana convictions while...
by Alec | Feb 5, 2016 | Maine
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court this week found a prosecutor, who is now a district judge, committed misconduct by making improper arguments in a 2012 murder trial, but let the conviction stand despite the prosecutor’s behavior. According to the Bangor Daily...
by Alec | Oct 16, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
In what may be the first law of its kind to directly address what Federal Appellate Judge Alex Kozinski has called the “epidemic” of prosecutorial misconduct in the United States, the California Legislature last week passed a bill requiring a trial judge...
by Alec | May 5, 2015 | District of Columbia, The Open File Blog
A little noted decision from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has held that the rule governing prosecutors’ ethical responsibility to disclose exculpatory evidence is significantly broader than the legal standard enshrined in the Brady line of cases. In In Re...
