by Alec | Sep 25, 2014 | New York, The Open File Blog
To the burgeoning annals of discredited prosecutions conducted by former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ office, which we’ve been chronicling here at The Open File for some time, we must now add the 1993 kidnapping convictions of Everton Wagstaffe and...
by OpenFile | Jul 16, 2014 | New York, The Open File Blog, Virginia
Two civil cases have been resolved in which wrongdoing was alleged against prosecutors for murder convictions that were later overturned on the back of prosecutorial misconduct. Michael Hash of Virginia reached an agreement with the prosecutor and sheriff he sued in...
by OpenFile | Apr 8, 2014 | New York, The Open File Blog
Update: Jonathan Fleming was freed yesterday after a short hearing where all charges against him were dismissed based on withheld exculpatory evidence. See Joaquin Sapien’s update at ProPublica here. ### When Jonathan Fleming’s attorney argued that his...