by Billy Earley | Oct, Tue, 2017 | Government Misconduct, Licensed to Lie |
Bad Prosecutors Stealing The Show Los Angeles – Prosecutorial misconduct occurs when a prosecutor breaks a law or a code of professional ethics in the course of a prosecution. In Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78 (1935), Justice Sutherland explained prosecutorial...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Tue, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 22: The Bar At Its Lowest Neither the government nor the courts ever acknowledged or discussed the highlighting of crucial exculpatory statements as Brady material. No court ever required the politically powerful former prosecutors to answer for their conduct....
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Mon, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 19: The Last Chance They filed an appeal of Judge Werlein’s denial of a new trial on the perjury and obstruction convictions. A few weeks later, Nicholas Marsh committed suicide, as already mentioned in Chapter One. That brought the prosecutorial misconduct...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Mon, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 16: Truth Be Told Long before the Barge trial, Ruemmler, Friedrich, Weissmann, and Hemann knew exactly what evidence the Merrill defendants needed for their defense. They knew that a “best-efforts” agreement to remarket the barges was lawful. These prosecutors...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Mon, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 14: Another Try Ms. Powell received denials on their motions of double jeopardy for Brown and their petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court. So they were looking at going to trial again for the same indictment. She then reached out to Deputy...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Sun, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
The Mother of All Corruption–DOJ Chapter 12: The Mother of All Hearings April 7, 2009—a momentous day in legal history—especially for anyone who cares about individual rights. The prosecutorial misconduct in the Stevens case was before Judge Sullivan. He began...