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Coming to the Supreme Court Next Term

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"High court will jump back into prosecutorial immunity, speedy trial issues," is Marcia Coyle's report for the upcoming edition of National Law Journal. The U.S. Supreme Court next term will jump back into questions surrounding prosecutorial immunity and speedy trial requirements in two cases, one involving prosecutors' immunity from suit for fabricating evidence in a case's investigative phase, and the other concerning whether pretrial motion preparation counts under the federal Speedy Trial Act. In January, the justices ruled against a man, wrongfully incarcerated for 24 years, who brought a civil rights suit against the Los Angeles district attorney, charging that the prosecution violated its constitutional duty to communicate impeachment information because of the district attorney's failure adequately to train and supervise prosecutors...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).