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The Tab for Prosecutorial Misconduct

By Steve Hall

Today's New Orleans Times-Picayune reports, "$14 million verdict stands against Orleans DA's office."  It's written by Gwen Filosa.In a tie vote that keeps in place a lower court's ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a jury's $14 million judgment against the Orleans Parish district attorney's office for misconduct in the 1985 murder trial of John Thompson.The full appellate court panel reviewed the case, which District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro inherited after his election last fall, and delivered a split decision on whether Thompson has the right to reap millions in compensation from a prosecution office that nearly sent him to the lethal-injection table. The decision means that Cannizzaro's office is stuck with the jury verdict, which with interest has grown to more than $15 million...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).