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DE: State High Court Reprimands and Disqualifies Prosecutors for Stealing Attorney-Client Information from Defendant’s Cell

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...
DE: Brady Violation Leads to Latest in String of Death Sentence Reversals

DE: Brady Violation Leads to Latest in String of Death Sentence Reversals

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...
Prosecutors Suppress Inconvenient Evidence in Death Penalty Cases

Prosecutors Suppress Inconvenient Evidence in Death Penalty Cases

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...

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