by Bert | Aug 21, 2019 | Kansas
After reading all 188 pages of Judge Julie Robinson’s opinion addressing how prosecutors have dealt with the multi-year attorney-client phone/visit-recording scandal in Kansas, it is astonishing that the US Attorney’s Office in Kansas continues to employ so many of...
by Bert | Apr 13, 2018 | Kansas
It is rare to see a court forcefully and thoroughly shame a prosecutor; even in instances of egregious misconduct, courts often avoid naming the lawyers responsible, silently observing an unspoken code that has long shielded prosecutors from meaningful scrutiny....
by OpenFile | Jan 17, 2014 | Georgia, The Open File Blog
Prosecutorial misconduct has led courts in Kansas and Georgia to overturn convictions for child sex crimes in recent weeks. In Georgia, a man sentenced to 25 years in prison for child molestation has won a new trial after prosecutors failed to disclose that the child...
by OpenFile | Oct 22, 2013 | Kansas, The Open File Blog
Reuters reports that last Friday, October 18, the state Supreme Court of Kansas unanimously found that former state Attorney General Phill Kline violated the state bar’s Rules of Professional Conduct in his prosecution of abortion providers. It took two years...
