DOJ loses another public corruption case, raising ... - Just The News
Dec 29, 2023 · Of ten public corruption cases over the past two decades reviewed by Just the News, three resulted in reversed convictions. Among the rest, three sentences were commuted by presidential pardon under the Trump Administration and in one other, federal prosecutors failed to convince a jury to find the defendant guilty.
Death Penalty Reversals Tied to Prosecutor ... - Criminal Legal News
Aug 3, 2022 · On July 5, 2022, the Death Penalty Information Center reported that 5.6% of all death penalty sentences in the last 50 years were reversed because of prosecutor misconduct. That percentage represents 550 innocent people who were saved from state sanctioned murder.
Court reverses murder conviction, citing prosecutorial misconduct…
Nov 29, 2024 · The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed the second-degree murder conviction of Deandre Turner, concluding that prosecutorial misconduct in Hennepin County District Court, along with evidentiary errors, deprived him of a fair trial.
Watchdog group sues to get disbarred Kansas prosecutor's …
5 days ago · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, wants documents showing the ethical misconduct of Terra Morehead, who had a 37-year career as both a state and federal prosecutor.
Fifth Circuit Reverses Conviction Based on Prejudicial Prosecutorial ...
Oct 15, 2020 · The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed Thaddeus Beaulieu’s felony criminal contempt conviction based on the prosecutor’s remarks that rose to the level of prejudicial misconduct. During an interview with FBI Agent Steven Rayes, Beaulieu identified various individuals in carjackings and bank robberies.
North Carolina Court Points to Prosecutorial Misconduct in Conviction ...
May 28, 2014 · On Tuesday, a North Carolina district court reversed the double murder conviction of Darryl Anthony Howard based on prosecutorial misconduct and new DNA evidence pointing to other suspects, and ordered a new trial.
Allegations of Prosecutorial Misconduct, Brady Violation in …
Apr 1, 2022 · In the recent decision by the Third District Appellate Court to reverse the second-degree murder conviction of Justin Gonzalez, Judge William Murray gave a concurring opinion with the Court’s decision.
How prosecutors’ evidence mistakes could let Menendez walk …
Dec 24, 2024 · Five months after a jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez of corruption-related charges that ended his political career, federal prosecutors have admitted to a series of errors that could upend the ...
How we found some 450 claims of prosecutorial misconduct in …
Dec 15, 2023 · In a two-year investigation, we built a dataset of some 450 claims of prosecutorial misconduct by analyzing thousands of pages of appellate decisions from 2018 to 2021. Detailed here is how we...
‘Rust’ Prosecutor Withdraws Appeal of Alec Baldwin Case
Dec 24, 2024 · The prosecutor, Kari T. Morrissey, said in a news release that she was abandoning the case because the New Mexico attorney general’s office, which handles appeals of criminal cases, did not ...