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In 1980 a similar case, Jenkins v. Anderson , reached the Supreme Court, its ruling distinguishing it from Doyle . The Court ruled that the prosecution is permitted to exploit as inculpatory evidence a defendant's failure to disclose an exculpatory testimony eventually presented in trial as defense, to government officials such as police in a ...
The Hyde Amendment (Pub.L. 105-119, § 617, Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2519, codified as a note following 18 U.S.C. § 3006A) is a federal statute allowing federal courts to award attorneys' fees and court costs to criminal defendants "where the court finds that the position of the United States was 'vexatious, frivolous, or in bad faith'".
Such cases have come to comprise a substantial portion of the Supreme Court's docket. ... Ohio, 46 U.S. (5 How.) 410 (1847) ... Conflict-free counsel. Glasser v.
The energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio will pay $20 million and avoid criminal charges as part of a deal with state prosecutors to resolve its role in the scandal.
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 Center Square) – The Ohio Medical Board can intervene more quickly if a medical professional is accused of being sexually abusive to patients. Gov. Mike DeWine recently signed a new law ...
Under U.S. law, in order to rise to an actionable level of negligence (an actual breach of a legal duty of care), the injured party must show that the attorney's acts were not merely the result of poor strategy, but that they were the result of errors that no reasonably prudent attorney would make.
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 ...