by Bert | May 14, 2019 | The Open File Blog
Wildly inappropriate behavior from the office of the prosecutor in Delaware’s largest city generated fascinating discussion among the justices in a recent Delaware Supreme Court opinion. The decision concerns the court’s review of a lower court’s dismissal of Jacquez...
by Alec | Dec 18, 2015 | Delaware
In a striking pattern in such a small state, for the third time in two years, the Delaware Supreme Court has reversed a death sentence and murder conviction based on prosecutorial misconduct. In 2014, we reported on the case of Jermaine Wright, who had spent 21 years...
by OpenFile | May 21, 2014 | Alabama, Delaware, The Open File Blog
Two capital cases have been overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct in recent weeks: (1) William Ziegler’s case out of Mobile County, Alabama, and (2) Jermaine Wright’s case out of New Castle County, Delaware. In both cases, prosecutors sought to win...
