Prosecutor Misconduct

[indago]

From The Associated Press 9 February 2016:
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A former prosecutor who used false testimony and withheld evidence to send a now-exonerated man to Texas' death row has lost an appeal to overturn his disbarment. ...he had engaged in prosecutorial misconduct in the case of Anthony Graves. ...Graves spent 18 years in prison, including 12 on death row.
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article (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EXONERATED_MAN_DISBARMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-02-09-08-04-05)

[NightTrain]

In cases like this, the Prosecutor should be put in jail for the amount of time that he railroaded the innocent man into.

There should be personal responsibility for wrecking someone else's life. Put him in jail for 18 years with no parole.

[indago]

Journalist Michael Kunzelman wrote for The Associated Press 29 March 2016:
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Prosecutors are rarely held accountable for misconduct and mistakes that have left innocent people imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit, according to report Tuesday by a nonprofit group that investigates possible wrongful convictions.

The Innocence Project's report coincides with the fifth anniversary of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned a $14 million judgment to a former death row inmate who was convicted of murder after New Orleans prosecutors withheld evidence from his defense lawyers.

...The Innocence Project's report says the court's decision means prosecutors "enjoy almost complete immunity from civil liability."
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article (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_EXONERATED_INMATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-03-29-04-17-26)


This Must Change!

[darin]

That last part drives me nuts. I'd love to see victims in cases like these get TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars. The kind of life-changing money for he and his posterity.