Category Archives: prosecutorial misconduct

Forensics: New laws force full Discovery in criminal cases. In some states. Recent cases of dishonest convictions have dropped in New York

Posted on March 5, 2025 by csidds

. https://innocenceproject.org/discovery-reform-is-under-attack-8-key-facts-you-need-to-know/

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Forensics: Massive conflicts within DA unit pledged to uncover bad convictions. Insider agendas delay or deny their claims of “integrity.”

Posted on February 28, 2025 by csidds
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Forensics: Prosecutors give excuses and denials for wrongful convictions.

Posted on January 17, 2025 by csidds

Forensics: False conviction lawsuits creates a blame game between cops and prosecutors. Typical. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/allan-woodhouse-brian-anderson-lawsuit-defence-1.7433555

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Forensics: Costs of Wrongful Convictions Keeps Going Up. 27 years in prison worth $8.5M

Posted on July 10, 2024 by csidds

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2024/07/09/detroit-settles-8-5-million-in-larry-smiths-wrongful-conviction/74329447007/

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Forensics: A Trail of Tears. How the Junk Science of Hair Analysis Keeps People Behind Bars – Mother Jones

Posted on December 15, 2023 by csidds

Each of these cases takes years to litigate and $ defendants don’t possess. The technique, developed before DNA testing, can’t definitively tie suspects to crime scenes. Try explaining that to juries — or some judges. — Read on http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/how-the-junk-science-of-hair-analysis-keeps-people-behind-bars/

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Forensics: DAs seldom get punished for misconduct. Wrongful Convictions Cost Chicago Taxpayers $153M from 2019 to 2023: Analysis | Chicago News

Posted on September 11, 2023 by csidds

That toll is set to grow in the coming weeks, as the Chicago City Council considers paying $25 million to resolve separate lawsuits filed in 2016 by two men who spent a combined 34 years in prison after being wrongly … Continue reading →

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Forensics: Another black eye for cop crime labs. Top prosecutor in Mass. drug lab scandal to be disbarred, high court rules

Posted on September 2, 2023 by csidds

Top prosecutor in Mass. drug lab scandal to be disbarred, high court rules – masslive.com — Read on http://www.masslive.com/politics/2023/09/top-prosecutor-in-mass-drug-lab-scandal-to-be-disbarred-high-court-rules.html

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Forensics: This Gross negligence is systemic. They held him 525 days past his release. Will the courts let him fight back?

Posted on August 11, 2023 by csidds

The U.S. Supreme Court created the rule in 1982, after previously setting a “good faith” standard in 1967. Since this move of the goalposts, government officials have used qualified immunity to escape accountability for torture, theft and retaliation, along with hundreds of other … Continue reading →

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Forensics: Rogue Prosecutor to blame. Winnipeg court exonerates indigenous men after decades-old convictions

Posted on July 20, 2023 by csidds

Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson did not kill a 40-year-old Winnipeg chef in 1973, a Winnipeg judge declared Tuesday. — Read on http://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/two-indigenous-men-acquitted-of-murder-after-50-years/

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Forensics: Fight for Justice Denied by Tennessee Court Refuses To Test DNA Evidence That Could Exonerate a Man the State Already Executed

Posted on April 25, 2023 by csidds

According to the law, the deceased Sedley Alley is the only person who can file a petition for post-conviction DNA testing. — Read on reason.com/2019/11/20/tennessee-court-refuses-to-test-dna-evidence-that-could-exonerate-a-man-the-state-already-executed/

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