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Retaliatory arrest and prosecution (6 P) W. ... Pages in category "Prosecutorial misconduct" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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 ...
Prosecutorial misconduct while prosecuting the Duke lacrosse case. [89] Richard Nixon: New York: August 9, 1976 — Obstruction of justice related to Watergate. [90] Joseph C. Pelletier: Massachusetts: May 8, 1922 — Removed from the office of Suffolk County, Massachusetts District Attorney for using his office to aid in blackmail and ...
Dalton P. Leach, 25, was charged Tuesday in Blackford Circuit Court with two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, a Level 4 felony carrying up to 12 years in prison.
The case went to trial in the spring of 2002, with the blood spatter as the main forensic evidence and the affairs listed as the motive. The prosecution argued that the bloodstains on Camm's shirt were the result of a high-velocity impact spatter, proving he was the shooter.
The following constitutes murder with aggravating circumstances, which is the only capital crime in Indiana. [8]The defendant committed the murder by intentionally killing the victim while committing or attempting to commit any of the following: arson, burglary, child molesting, criminal deviate conduct, kidnapping, rape, robbery, carjacking, criminal organization activity, dealing in cocaine ...
While several early cases employed the "intangible right to honest government," United States v. States (8th Cir. 1973) [9] was the first case to rely on honest services fraud as the sole basis for a conviction. [10] The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s. [11 ...
"Second-class" cities had a population of at least 34,000 and up to 600,000 at time of designation, and have a nine-member city council and an elected clerk. Indianapolis is the only "first-class" city in Indiana under state law, making it subject to a consolidated city-county government known as Unigov. A town is differentiated from a city in ...