Showing posts with label prosecutorial misconduct. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prosecutorial misconduct. Show all posts
Monday, December 17, 2018

Court allows execution to proceed after receiving evidence of prosecutorial misconduct

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Last Tuesday night the State of Texas murdered Alvin Braziel - despite the fact prosecutors admitted, hours before the scheduled execution t...
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, 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, June 25, 2012

Another victim of prosecutorial misconduct

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Over at Grits for Breakfast  we have yet another tale of a man who has sat in prison for more than a decade due to prosecutorial misconduct ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

How long until they decide to outlaw trial by jury?

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The backlash against the not guilty verdicts in the Casey Anthony case has reached Texas. State Sen. Chris Harris (R-Arlington) has let th...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Protecting their own

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As I was looking through my Google Reader on Wednesday, I happened upon a post on Grits for Breakfast  in which Scott Henson questioned why ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Federal judge orders criminal investigation of prosecutors

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If the prosecutors from the Harris County District Attorney's Office who were disciplined for a Batson violation think their punishmen...