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Will state bar discipline prosecutor who withheld Brady material in Austin murder case?

I'm amazed to see yet another gruesome murder case in Austin tainted by apparent prosecutorial misconduct. The Texas Cable News Network reports that "The 3rd Court of Appeals upheld Laura Hall's conviction but threw out her five-year sentence it said prosecutors withheld material evidence in the case." Hall had been convicted as an accomplice for hindering apprehension after the brutal murder of a UT-Austin student.According to the opinion by Judge Wilford Flowers, the Third Court of Appeals found that "the State acted wilfully in failing to disclose the statements." The opinion doesn't name the prosecutor the court found improperly withheld information, but the result is certainly a black eye for the Travis County DA.Relatedly, I noticed recently that the state bar's Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel is scouting around for criminal defense attorneys who should lose their licenses over criminal convictions, posting requests to the prosecutors' user forum asking for recommendations whose bar license to pursue...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).