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United States v. Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and Wesley MacGregor (2019) was the federal criminal prosecution of a Massachusetts state court judge (Joseph) and court officer (MacGregor) for helping a state court defendant evade federal immigration authorities by allowing him to leave a court hearing through a rear door of the courthouse.
United States v. Williams, 504 U.S. 36 (1992), was a U.S. Supreme Court case concerning the presentation of exculpatory evidence to a grand jury.It ruled that the federal courts do not have the supervisory power to require prosecutors to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury.
Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the prosecution's failure to inform the jury that a witness had been promised not to be prosecuted in exchange for his testimony was a failure to fulfill the duty to present all material evidence to the jury, and constituted a violation of due process, requiring a new trial. [1]
White-Collar Crime columnists Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan S. Sack provide a brief examination of the heavy burden on defendants who claim misconduct in grand jury proceedings. They then discuss ...
A Fayette Circuit Court judge has ruled that a Lexington police officer and the top prosecutor did not intentionally mislead a grand jury to secure more serious charges against a defendant accused ...
Such cases have come to comprise a substantial portion of the Supreme Court's docket. ... Grand Jury Clause. Hurtado v. California, 110 U.S. 516 (1884)
President-elect Trump’s attorneys have accused a member of the New York jury that convicted him of wrongdoing, seeking to overturn the historic guilty verdict. In a letter to Judge Juan Merchan ...
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." [1] It is similar to selective prosecution. Prosecutors are bound by a set of rules ...