Sentences with phrase «for prosecutorial misconduct»

Adopt a Supreme Court rule mandating punishment for prosecutorial misconduct.

Professor Starr's thoughtful paper advocates sentencing reductions as a remedy for prosecutorial misconduct.

The Supreme Court will soon be considering whether to take up an interesting question involving when monetary sanctions may be imposed for prosecutorial misconduct.

Recently was part of legal team defending pharmacist against federal criminal charges, resulting in dismissal of case, with prejudice, for prosecutorial misconduct.

As a recent federal ruling, U.S. v. Dicus (reducing a sentence as a sanction for prosecutorial misconduct) proves, legal scholarship can have an impact on the outcome of a case, even if a paper hasn't been published in a top journal.

He argued that the charges against them should be thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct as a result.

All those prosecutors resigned in disgrace, for prosecutorial misconduct in another case.

Not exact matches

«As far as I'm concerned it was prosecutorial misconduct not to present the grand jury with what he told the FBI,» said Joseph M. LaTona, another lawyer for Maziarz.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

When, suddenly, thanks to a whistle - blower (whom the prominent Illiberals in Congress want prosecuted [thehill.com], BTW), we learn of the massive prosecutorial misconduct (some of it, such as deleting files after receiving Freedom of Information requests, outright criminal), that affects a substantial amount of evidence against us, we move for the «court» to dismiss the entire case.

Justice Archie Campbell saw through the OSC's tactic, noting the defence «has a right to make allegations of abuse of process and prosecutorial misconduct» and he refused to kick Hryn off, noting there was a «real basis for the defence concern about Mr. Naster's failure to appreciate his duty to follow adverse rulings.

For the Division of Criminal Justice: City of Torrington Grand Jury investigation; investigation and prosecution of Windham County High Sheriff and two Special Deputy Sheriffs on corruption and obstruction of justice charges and expert witness on prosecutorial misconduct allegations.

As someone whose best friend is presently serving 5.5 years for something that barely rates as a «crime» in the United States, which is more like, at best professional misconduct, I can attest to the prosecutorial overreach of the U.S. government.

Whether you're blogging about technology for lawyers or prosecutorial misconduct, here are a few general practices that can make the journey less burdensome, more productive and even enjoyable.

The disciplinary panel noted that Mr. Groia had conceded during the trial that he had insufficient evidence to seek a stay of proceedings on the basis of prosecutorial misconduct, but he nevertheless «persisted in repeating [these allegations] ad nauseum»; this drew the panel to the conclusion that Mr. Groia's real intentions were to «disrupt the orderly proceeding of the trial» and «creat [e] the conditions for the trial to collapse under its own weight» (Ibid.).

There was also ineffective lawyering by court - appointed counsel, possible prosecutorial misconduct — including the suppression of police audio of the manhunt for the killer that suggests the bulk of the 40 - minute chase was spent pursuing a man fitting Hernandez's description, and not De Luna's — capped off with «not very thorough» post-conviction appeals.

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.