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Prosecutorial Misconduct

By Michael Blankenship

He was known as a jailhouse lawyer, a high school dropout turned amateur legal adviser who helped other inmates file legal motions and craft appeals while he served a sentence of 34 years to life for a murder he swore he never committed. But the cause for which the inmate, Jabbar Collins, most zealously advocated was his own. He requested public records; tracked down old witnesses; and, on at least one occasion, impersonated a law enforcement officer ? all in an effort to gather evidence of prosecutorial misconduct. The fruit of Mr. Collins?s efforts wound its way to United States District Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday and into the hands of Judge Dora L. Irizarry, who indicated that she would vacate his 15-year-old murder conviction because of concerns about how the prosecution was handled by the Brooklyn district attorney?s office...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on May 26, 2010 (boomark / email).