prosecutorial misconduct

NBC News reported yesterday that "The Republican governor [of the state of Alabama] said she was commuting Toforest Johnson’s death sentence to life in prison without parole. Johnson was convicted of the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy. Johnson has long maintained he...

Continuation thread. First part is here: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13525070#post13525070. 4/11 Moved this to the trials section since the trial has started. There is a very big difference... the person in this case actually was committing a serious felony...

A black man, Ahmaud Arbery, was shot dead while out for a jog in Georgia after being confronted by two armed white men attempting a citizen's arrest. The two white men set up a roadblock with their truck and confronted the unarmed Arbery. In the brief exchange, Arbery struggled with one of the...

Why do they do this kind of thing? That's the part I don't get. It's one thing not wanting to admit you sent an innocent man to jail for 25 years. But withholding the evidence before the guy is convicted, that is another psychological phenomena. DNA helps free Texas man convicted in wife's death

I report the tale first in another thread: I think this case deserves its own thread. A guy got tossed in the klink for 18 years, sitting 14 years on death row. Less than a month before he was to be put to death, evidence of prosecutorial misconduct surfaced. The convict (who apparently was a...

NPR has a news story up this morning: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90172724&ft=1&f=1012 About an all-too-familiar situation, a man who has served 27 years for a rape/murder found innocent by DNA evidence. What's more to the point is that this case appears to be only...