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: Legal Ethics ForumProsecutorial Misconduct Case on Supreme Court's Docket Dismissed
As reported by SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston earlier this afternoon:
False testimony case dismissed
A case testing the immunity of prosecutors to damage lawsuits for obtaining and using false testimony ended in the Supreme Court Monday, with the two sides agreeing to dismiss it, without specifying reasons. The case was Pottawattamie County, et al. v. McGhee, et a (08-1065). The Justices had heard argument in the case on Nov. 4, and were weighing a decision when the two sides moved for dismissal under the Court?s Rule 46. The press release from the respondent?s counsel describing the settlement is here.
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).
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