Sentences with phrase «prosecutorial misconduct not»

«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.

Not exact matches

If efforts to undermine the integrity are not properly handled, like prosecutorial misconduct, then the future integrity wil always be in question.

This not only permits false confessions, she says, but also makes it difficult to detect 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.

Canadian judges are somtimes equally unforgiving where prosecutorial misconduct is involved which results in the jury hearing inadmissible evidence — see R v. Kusk, 1999 ABCA 49 — even where Charter issues are not mentioned... [more]

Canadian judges are somtimes equally unforgiving where prosecutorial misconduct is involved which results in the jury hearing inadmissible evidence — see R v. Kusk, 1999 ABCA 49 — even where Charter issues are not mentioned.

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.

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.