Sentences with phrase «on prosecutorial misconduct»

The Law Society of Upper Canada's Nov. 28, 2013, appellate decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Groia, at paragraph 235, held that lawyers should not mount a defence based on prosecutorial misconduct unless they are made «in good faith and have a reasonable basis.

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on account of prosecutorial misconduct at trial.

We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.

«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.

However, what distinguishes this case from most other disciplinary decisions on incivility is that the alleged attacks were accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, an issue that can and should be raised before a court, rather than personal attacks per se.

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.).

In more than 100 cases since 1980, Massachusetts courts of appeal have thrown out criminal convictions based on prosecutorial improprieties, and in 20 of those cases they have used the words «egregious» or «misconduct» or both to describe impropriety.