Santa Clara California Prosecutors Rarely Pay Price for Mistakes and Misconduct
Santa Clara California Prosecutors Rarely Pay Price for Mistakes and Misconduct The Innocence Project released a report Tuesday alleging that prosecutors across the country are almost never punished when they withhold evidence or commit other forms of misconduct that land innocent people in prison. The Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal group that represents people seeking exonerations, examined records in Arizona, California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania, and interviewed a wide assortment of defense lawyers, prosecutors and legal experts. In each state, researchers examined court rulings from 2004 through 2008 in which judges found that prosecutors had committed violations such as… Continue reading
