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Alabama Death Sentence Should Be Tossed Over Misconduct and Other Issues

by Julia | Sep 10, 2019 | Alabama, The Open File Blog

Radley Balko is an invaluable national resource as a long form journalist who does a spectacular job covering criminal justice issues in general and the problem of prosecutorial powerand misconduct specifically. Late last week, Radley wrote a very...
MO: Craig Wood’s Death Sentence Flawed in Part Because of Prosecutorial Misconduct

MO: Craig Wood’s Death Sentence Flawed in Part Because of Prosecutorial Misconduct

by Bert | Aug 9, 2019 | Missouri

“The facts presented by the underlying crime are appalling and horrifying.” That is a line not from the Missouri Supreme Court’s majority opinion affirming the death sentence of Craig Wood, but instead from the dissent. And it is undeniably true. The evidence that Mr....
CA: A Closer Look at Los Angeles County’s Troubling Death-Penalty Track Record

CA: A Closer Look at Los Angeles County’s Troubling Death-Penalty Track Record

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...

Will NC State Courts Finally Recognize And Correct Their Batson Smoking Gun?

by OpenFile | Jun 13, 2019 | North Carolina, The Open File Blog

Much about the U.S. Supreme Court is deeply opaque. It’s very hard – maybe impossible – to know which petitions the Justices will grant, what issues they care about, or how they will adjudicate any given case. One thing we do know is that several Republican-appointed...
UT: Death Row Inmate Wins New Hearing Because State Suppressed Benefits It Gave to Key Witnesses

UT: Death Row Inmate Wins New Hearing Because State Suppressed Benefits It Gave to Key Witnesses

by Bert | Mar 26, 2019 | Utah

Utah death row inmate Douglas Carter has a new evidentiary hearing to look forward to in light of the Utah Supreme Court’s recent opinion in his case. The opinion—which stems from Carter’s appeal of a post-conviction court’s summary denial—is a model of fairness. In...
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