by Bert | Dec 22, 2017 | Alaska
Earlier this week, a Ninth Circuit panel released an interesting opinion that shines light on a rarely-discussed form of prosecutorial misbehavior: interference with a defendant’s right to counsel. The federal murder trial of James Wells took place in the District of...
by Bert | Mar 23, 2016 | Washington
Judge Alex Kozinski, who has made headlines over the past few years for raising concerns about our nation’s epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct, is making good on his promise to “name names” when prosecutors engage in chicanery. On Monday, Kozinski authored the Ninth...
by Sophie | Jul 5, 2015 | Arizona, The Open File Blog
Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit has published a stunning law review article in the Georgetown Law Journal that gives us numerous reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just – among them, evidence that prosecutors do not play...
by OpenFile | Mar 3, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
The San Jose Mercury News shared a stunning revelation last Sunday when it ran a story about an ex-jailer from the Santa Clara county jail who says he “routinely” planted jailhouse informants in cells with inmates awaiting trial in order to actively...
by OpenFile | Apr 28, 2014 | National, The Open File Blog
The case of Kenneth Olsen, whose appeal to the 9th Circuit last year drew a scathing dissent from five of the Court’s justices when the appeal was denied, made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Olsen’s lawyers quoted heavily from the 9th Circuit...
