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Federal prosecutors again found to have committed severe misconduct

By Douglas A. Berman

This article from the Chicago Tribune, headlined "Prosecutorial misconduct seen in drug trial: Witness allowed to testify falsely, federal Judge Joan Lefkow rules," reports on yet another disturbing case of federal prosecutorial misconduct emerging from a prominent US Attorney's Office.  Here are the basics: A federal judge has found that a prosecutor in U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald's office committed prosecutorial misconduct by allowing a government witness to testify falsely in a drug conspiracy trial that resulted in the convictions of four defendants in March. In a 27-page ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow ordered a new trial for the four on some counts, including the key conspiracy charge.  But she refused to dismiss multiple other counts, meaning each faces sentencing for those convictions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 29, 2009 (boomark / email).