by Bert | May 1, 2018 | The Open File Blog
District Attorney elections—unique to American jurisdictions and undoubtedly problematic—are a long-running and entrenched reality in most parts of our country. As prosecutors have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, largely because of the unmitigated...
by Sophie | Dec 5, 2014 | National, The Open File Blog
Episode 10 of “Serial,” the acclaimed podcast series created by narrator Sarah Koenig and sponsored by This American Life, offers useful insights into the ways that cultural and racial biases attach to cases in the criminal justice system. The episode went...
by OpenFile | Sep 23, 2014 | National, The Open File Blog
We have written previously on the tension for prosecutors in disclosing Brady material about police witnesses, noting that “there is a whole series of steps that can impede the disclosure of impeachment evidence about police officers.” A new law review...
by OpenFile | Feb 10, 2014 | Louisiana, The Open File Blog
An increasing number of documentaries are highlighting cases of prosecutorial misconduct and overreach, and asking questions about the level of power we have divested to prosecutors in our criminal justice system, a recent Los Angeles Times article says. In an article...
by OpenFile | Jan 13, 2014 | National, The Open File Blog
On January 8, 2014 the Center for Prosecutor Integrity (CPI) announced the launch of its Registry of Prosecutorial Misconduct, the first “publicly available national online database to catalog judicial or legal disciplinary committee findings of prosecutorial...
