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Kerry barrister, Mary-Louise Donovan, selected to work with for the Ohio Innocence Project…
Is There a Cure for Wrongful Convictions?..
Minnesota’s criminal justice system: Wrongly imprisoned, but finally compensated…
States Lead the Way on Justice Reform…
Also lost in the Illinois budget wars: Exoneree compensation…
Proof of innocence a hard road for many freed Louisiana inmates seeking state compensation…
Defense attorneys say withheld Farak notes implicate prosecutors…
“48 Hours” Presents: Cal Harris: The Final Verdict…
Life After Wrongful Conviction…

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Leaked Documents Show Alabama Police Planted Drugs, Guns on Innocent Black Men in Decades-long Scheme…
Only eyewitness in 1982 St. Louis murder says she`s recanting…
Criminal justice in Japan: Forced to confess…
Texas Enacts Legislation to Reduce Wrongful Convictions…
Connie Oakes’ murder conviction based on ‘legal fiction,’ says new appeal filing…
Vietnamese man jailed for 17 years has murder conviction overturned…
B.C. judge won’t let rape support group argue Ivan Henry is guilty during his compensation lawsuit for wrongful conviction…
Ohio Court rules the Dean Gillispie cannot be re-tried in 1988 case,
Prosecutor vows to file an appeal…

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Following Stevens Trial Report, Senator Introduces Legislation for New Federal Disclosure Standards

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Nancy Petro | Leave a comment

With the backing of the American Bar Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Civil Liberties Union, among others, legislation introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowsk (R-Alaska) seeks to create a new national standard for prosecutorial disclosure of evidence in federal cases. This comes in the wake of the scathing 524-page report recently unsealed that concluded prosecutors in the Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) case “intentionally withheld and concealed significant exculpatory information.”

In an article in Roll Call, the longstanding newspaper of Capital Hill, Peter Awindenbert, a partner at DLA Piper, said this issue goes well beyond this case: Continue reading →