by Bert | Jun 18, 2019 | California
A new report just published by the ACLU calls our attention to Los Angeles County. There, District Attorney Jackie Lacey—who has been under increasing scrutiny despite her claims of being a reformer—has presided over an organization that continues to waste the...
by Bert | May 30, 2018 | The Open File Blog
We’ve had a few-week hiatus from new posts and wanted to return with a summary of some of the key news from the month of May. We hope that this will help you catch up on items of particular interest. Also, you can follow us on Twitter @openfilesite In Massachusetts,...
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 | 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 | Dec 10, 2015 | Louisiana
In an opinion that reads like a parody of the absurd results courts can reach in applying the doctrine of “materiality” in Brady claims, a judge in Louisiana held late last month that witness statements placing a murder weapon in the hands of a man other...
