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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 ...
The Albany Law Review criticized this decision as outlining a "retaliation doctrine" that incentivizes both parties to not report misconduct if they believe it invites them to engage in similar misconduct. Law professor Martin Belsky argued that trials should instead maintain their fairness by requiring both sides to object to misconduct by the ...
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An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in an action. It is a claim made by the respondent or defendant that the other party is misusing or perverting regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) not justified by the underlying legal action.
Inmate on death row for 33 years must either be released or retried over prosecutorial misconduct. ... County prosecutor’s office 60 days to retry 71-year-old Curtis Lee Ervin or let him go free ...
Prosecutorial misconduct claims escalate. Though it’s not unheard of for defense attorneys to try and have prosecutors removed, there has been an uptick since the very same judge ordered the ...
There is no evidence of prosecutorial misconduct or election interference in the trial. The former president also bizarrely shared a Bible quote: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man ...
The headstone of Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully convicted and executed for two murders that had been committed by his neighbour John Christie. A miscarriage of justice occurs when an unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, [1] such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. [2]