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
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