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...
by Alec | May 21, 2015 | Kentucky, The Open File Blog
In what is only the latest in a long list of troubles in the Jefferson County Commonwealth Attorney’s office, a judge this week dismissed a felony assault charge, saying the prosecutor had “deliberately” and “improperly” kept medical...
by Alec | Sep 21, 2014 | Kentucky, The Open File Blog
Recently at The Open File we’ve been following developments at the Jefferson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Office in Louisville. Notably, the alleged misdeeds of prosecutor Tom Van De Rostyne. In April, a judge declared a mistrial in the murder case against Dejuan...
by OpenFile | Aug 27, 2014 | Kentucky, The Open File Blog
A former Assistant Jefferson Commonwealth’s Attorney who his now at the Kentucky Attorney General’s office and who withheld exculpatory evidence in a murder case is under scrutiny again following allegations that he used his prosecutorial power to bully a...
by OpenFile | Jul 29, 2014 | Kentucky, The Open File Blog
Update – July 29, 2014 More withheld information has been discovered by defense attorneys, according to reports by Jason Riley at WDRB. Last week, Dejuan Hammond’s lawyers filed 44 pages of evidence in court asserting that much of it was “undeniably...
