by OpenFile | Nov 18, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
Today, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the UC Irvine School of Law, and former California Attorney General and Los Angeles District Attorney John Van de Kamp were among the three dozen former prosecutors, legal scholars and organizations who called on the Department of...
by Alec | Oct 16, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
In what may be the first law of its kind to directly address what Federal Appellate Judge Alex Kozinski has called the “epidemic” of prosecutorial misconduct in the United States, the California Legislature last week passed a bill requiring a trial judge...
by Sophie | Mar 20, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
It’s been a busy week since an Orange County judge found that local law enforcement and prosecutors relied on unconstitutional practices involving jailhouse informants to seek a death sentence in the case of Scott Dekraai and ruled that the Orange County...
by OpenFile | Mar 12, 2015 | California, The Open File Blog
Adding to the recent flurry of media attention on prosecutorial misconduct in California, The Los Angeles Times ran a story yesterday – and an update today – on a highly anticipated ruling from Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals dealing with the...
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...
