Sentences with phrase «of prosecutorial misconduct»

A murder charge against a Farmingdale man was dismissed mid-trial because of prosecutorial misconduct so...

Yet he ignores the reality that Ms. DeAngelis» office was poorly managed, with a big case backlog and too many convictions overturned by appellate courts, some with determinations of prosecutorial misconduct.

The trial judge below held that extrinsic evidence of prosecutorial misconduct was required to establish an exception to settlement privilege.

«The Crown in this case engaged in multiple instances of prosecutorial misconduct,» wrote Justice Mary Lou Benotto.

They were an unfounded, relentless personal attack on the integrity of opposing counsel, including baseless allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

In 2008, Stevens was voted out of office barely a week after being convicted of corruption (the conviction was tossed out in 2009 amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, and Stevens died in a plane crash the following year).

«The Law Society disciplinary panels were concerned here with an advocate's alleged pattern of making unfounded, personalized attacks on the integrity of opposing counsel and baseless allegations of prosecutorial misconduct,» wrote the court.

On this point, the Court of Appeal again sided with the law society, quoting favourably from the appeal panel's decision, in which it wrote that «zealous advocacy did not require Mr. Groia to make unfounded allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

The law society argues that lawyers do not enjoy an absolute freedom of speech and that Groia's personal attacks and allegations of prosecutorial misconduct were of low value and deserve little protection as free speech.