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Increased Interest in District Attorney Elections Brings Much Needed Scrutiny to Campaigns

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...
Episode 10 of “Serial” Offers Insights into How Racial & Cultural Bias Can Attach to Criminal Cases

Episode 10 of “Serial” Offers Insights into How Racial & Cultural Bias Can Attach to Criminal Cases

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...
New Study Finds Prosecutors Have Trouble Disclosing Bad Facts About Police Witnesses

New Study Finds Prosecutors Have Trouble Disclosing Bad Facts About Police Witnesses

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...
LA Times Says Documentaries about Prosecutorial Misconduct are On the Rise

LA Times Says Documentaries about Prosecutorial Misconduct are On the Rise

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...
Public Database Launched to Track Prosecutorial Misconduct

Public Database Launched to Track Prosecutorial Misconduct

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...
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