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Boston Federal Judge chastises United States Attorney For Misconduct

By Altman & Altman

The chief judge of the Boston ?s local United States District Court is threatening to sanction a federal prosecutor for what he characterized as the latest "egregious failure" of the United States Attorney's office to disclose evidence that could have helped clear a defendant. Undisclosed, the result could lead to a wrongful conviction. Chief District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf said in a sharply worded memorandum that Assistant US Attorney Suzanne Sullivan failed to disclose that a Boston police officer's testimony at a pretrial hearing contradicted what the officer had repeatedly told the prosecutor beforehand. The defendant, a Mattapan man arrested on gun charges in July 2007, is still awaiting trial. Wolf said the truth about the circumstances of the arrest came to light only when he reviewed Sullivan's notes of her interviews of the police officer, Rance Cooley...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).