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• Peeking in on the feds: Texas' Western District prosecutors less generous than Southern

  —Grits for Breakfast

  I've been meaning to revisit some of the testimony from last week's US Sentencing Commission hearing here in Austin, and thought I'd point out some interesting data from federal probation chiefs here in Texas and some new (to me) data on federal prison overcrowding.
  
  According to [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:24pm EST
  

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• Even more trouble for Hidalgo's Sylvia Handy

  —South Texas Chisme

  A federal court has ordered Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy remain on 24-hour home lockdown and could send her to jail amid allegations she tried to bribe a witness in her ongoing criminal case.
  
  Prosecutors said Handy offered $500 concert tickets to the family of an illegal immigrant who [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:29am EST
  

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• Out for the morning: Sentencing coverage to come

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  This morning I'm headed up to the UT Law School to hear a couple of panels presenting to the US Sentencing Commission, then after lunch out to a Sentencing Conference held biennially for judges, prosecutors and probation officials by TDCJ's Community Justice Assistance Division. (See their agenda [pdf].)' [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:52am EST
  

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• 9/11 suspects to be tried in NYC court

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  9/11 suspects to be tried in NYC court WASHINGTON – Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian U.S. courthouse in New York, near the site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks, the Obama administration announced Friday. Prosecutors [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:58pm EST
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• A very important distinction

  —Grits for Breakfast

  The New York Times clarified an important distinction in a correction to a recent story about the Innocence Project at Northwestern University:
  

  Correction: November 1, 2009
  An article last Sunday about the Medill Innocence Project, in which students at Northwestern University’s journalism school scrutinize the work of prosecutors [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:41am EST
  

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• Where is the Hasan treason charge?

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  WSJ:
  
  

  Military prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was formally charged Thursday with 13 counts of premeditated murder, according to a senior Army officer familiar with the matter.

  The last execution of an active-duty serviceman took place [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:30am EST
  

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• Petty cash to informants: Routine investigative technique or inducement to perjury?

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  One of the ways I keep Grits a (relatively) manageable project is by remaining geographically limited, so I haven't followed in more than a cursory fashion the efforts by Illinois prosecutors to legally harass Northwestern University students working with that university's innocence clinic. But given this blog's interest in' [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:13pm EST
  

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• Harris County DA says judge trivializes domestic violance cases

  —South Texas Chisme

  The Harris County District Attorney's Office upped the ante against criminal Court-at-Law Judge Reagan Helm on Tuesday, asking him to remove himself from “any and all” cases involving accusations of domestic violence because of “deep-seated bias and prejudice.”
  
  In motions filed Tuesday joining two earlier recusal requests, prosecutors asked [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:24am EST
  

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• Court records: City Rep. Rachel Quintana loses 2nd appeal in forgery case

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  EL PASO -- City Rep. Rachel Quintana has lost a second appeal and has one
  left.
  
  Prosecutors charged Quintana with misdemeanor forgery in October
  2007, four months after she took her seat on the City Council. They say she
  forged a document to obtain a Southwest Airlines ticket at [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

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• A "perverse" position on prosecutors fabricating evidence ... by the Obama Administration

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  Wednesday the US Supreme Court held oral arguments on an important case regarding prosecutorial misconduct, where prosecutors sought absolute immunity when they fabricate evidence to frame a defendant if the information is used at trial.
  
  In looking at the transcript (pdf) from Pottawatamie County v. McGhee, it was [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:53am EST
  

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• Idaho Prosecutors Opting Not to Seek Death Penalty

  —The StandDown Texas Project

  That's the title of Patrick Orr's report in the Idaho Statesman of Boise.  It's subtitled, "Only 2 Idaho counties have asked for the death penalty in murder cases since 2003, and Ada hasn’t pursued it since being denied twice in 2005."
  

  For Elmore County prosecutor Kristina Schindele, the decision [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:15am EST
  by Steve Hall

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• Do prosecutors "hate new crimes"?

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  Our pal Shannon Edmonds of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association forwards a link to this short law review article provocatively titled, "Why prosecutors hate new crimes" (pdf). Give it a read, the fellow makes an interesting argument - one I partially (but not entirely) agree with. I [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

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• Prosecutorial hubris, entitlement on display in recent cases

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  The National Law Journal published an op ed today by Bennett Gershman criticizing the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and Collin County prosecutors for using procedural excuses to avoid addressing egregious judicial and prosecutorial conduct in the Charles Dean Hood case, where the judge and prosecutor were engaged in [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:22am EST
  

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• Prosecutorial Misconduct Roundup

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  Here are several recent stories related to prosecutorial misconduct that merit Grits readers' attention:
  Joe Palazzolo, Main Justice: Justice Department Opposes Expanded Brady RuleRadley Balko, Reason: No Accountability: Why are bad prosecutors so rarely punished?Brian Rogers, Houston Chronicle: Harris County prosecutor accused of hiding evidenceChuck Lindell, Austin' [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 7:53am EDT
  

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• Charges Dismissed Against Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen in Yogurt Shop case: Springsteen Once Was Sentenced to Death in Case

  —Texas Moratorium Network

  From the Austin American-Statesman: Travis County prosecutors moved to dismiss the murder indictments against the two remaining defendants in the 1991 yogurt shop murders after announcing in court today that they are still looking for the person whose DNA was found last year in one of the four teenage [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 4:31pm EDT
  

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• Charges Dismissed in Yogurt Shop Case

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  That's the title of a post at the Austin American-Statesman Austin Legal blog written by Steven Kreytak.  LINK

  Travis County prosecutors moved to dismiss the murder indictments against the two remaining defendants in 1991 yogurt shop murders after announcing in court today that they are still looking for the person whose DNA was [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 4:07pm EDT
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• FDWIL - And Now For the Rest of the Story. . .

  —The Collin County Observer

  And Now For the Rest of the Story. . .
  
  Posted on October 27, 2009 by Hunter Biederman
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  I have not written about a recent DWI incident because I didn’t want to soil the names of prosecutors accused of wrongdoing. Those [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:56am EDT
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