Showing posts with label Brady v. Maryland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brady v. Maryland. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2018

The problem with proving the unknown

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In an article for The Intercept  last week, Jordan Smith hit upon the ultimate problem with prosecutorial misconduct -- proving it is damn ...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Bargaining with the devil

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Corey Williams is a free man . He spent 20 years in the Angola prison in Louisiana for a murder he didn't commit. Back in 1998, Mr. Wi...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Consequences, what consequences?

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Alfred Brown spent a decade of his life on death row in Texas before he was exonerated by phone records found in a detective's garage i...
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Monday, January 8, 2018

What will Cliven Bundy do next?

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On December 23, I wrote about the dismissal of the cases against Cliven Bundy and his band of Angry White Men with Guns . Today US Distric...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

You couldn't screw it up this bad if you tried (or could you?)

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I have very mixed emotions about the dumpster fire that has become the Cliven Bundy trial. This week, US District Judge Gloria Navarro decla...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Stepping in it

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Oh what a mess Harris County DA Devon Anderson has found herself in. As has been reported in local media outlets, over the last nine years s...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Stop me if you've heard this before...

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It seems that no matter how hard it tries, the Houston Police Department Crime Lab just can't keep itself out of the news. Peter Lentz w...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

We'll let you know if it's something we think you should know about

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Exactly how does a lab analyst, at an accredited lab, record the wrong name on at least 350 lab samples? How does that same lab analyst lose...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Hear my tiny violin

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The Michael Morton Act was passed in response to the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton. Mr. Morton, as has been noted here before, sat i...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Another innocent man freed from prison

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How many more stories are we going to have to read about innocent men and women being released from prison after serving two decades or more...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Dropping the other shoe

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Michael Morton spent 25 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Once evidence surfaced that Mr. Morton might just have been innoce...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Making a bad bill even worse

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Never one to let a good opportunity to put the screws to the defense, State Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) has proposed an amendment to State...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Survey says...

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Oh, are there ever some Texas prosecutors with some seriously ruffled feathers after Judge Barbara Hervey of the Texas Court of Criminal App...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Giving Brady some teeth

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So here's the dirty little secret - the Brady  decision isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Sure, it sounds great. The prosec...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Just another slap on the wrist

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In Brady v. Maryland , 373 US 83, 87 (1963) , the US Supreme Court held that "the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable ...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Report documents prosecutorial misconduct

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A USA Today investigation revealed 201 cases between 1997 and today in which federal prosecutors committed various acts of misconduct that ...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Harris County prosecutor accused of hiding exculpatory evidence

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Harris County Assistant District Attorney Denise Oncken was accused by defense attorneys of hiding Brady material in a child sexual assault...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Tarrant County District Attorney may be removed from death row appeal

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The Tarrant County District Attorney's Office is facing the prospect of being removed from the death row appeal of Chelsea Richardson d...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Withholding exculpatory evidence

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"We now hold that the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the ev...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Breath test operator under investigation

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Last October, Dee Wallace, at the time a technical supervisor for the Texas Department of Public Safety in charge of maintaining breath test...
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