Misconduct In The News
In The News
2025
- 2025, Colorado, Divided Colorado Supreme Court upholds disbarment of ex-DA Linda Stanley
- 2025, Colorado, Two Criminal Cases Dismissed Due to Evidence Violations in Denver DA’s Office
- 2025, Colorado, DA Causes Sexual Assault Charges to Be Dismissed Due to Pattern of Ongoing and Significant Misconduct
- 2025, How the DOJ Helps Federal Prosecutors Escape Accountability and Evade Public Scrutiny.
- 2025, New York, Man Exonerated After Spending 30 Years in Prison, Judge Rules Prosecutors Hid Favorable Evidence.
- 2025, California, Samuel Bonner Released From Prison After 40 Years Due to Prosecutorial and Law Enforcement Misconduct, Only Law Enforcement Held Accountable.
- 2025, New Hampshire, Prosecutors Sanctioned After Exhibiting Gross Negligence In Wrongly Reviewing Accused’s Confidential Lawyer’s File.
2024
- 2024, New Mexico, Defendant Alec Baldwin Motion for-Dismissal and Sanctions
- 2024, Nevada, Woman Ruled Innocent After 15 Years, Prosecutors Deny Finding of Innocence and Condone Police who Destroyed Evidence.
- 2024, Colorado, Murder Conviction overturned after DA Tarantino and Chief Deputy DA Sugioka commit prosecutorial misconduct by misstating facts to the jury.
- 2024, Colorado, Sexual Assault Conviction Reversed, after Douglas County DA’s Nathaniel Marsh and Zoe Laird Commit Prosecutorial Misconduct by Hiding the Truth to the Jury about the DNA.
- 2024, Alabama, School Board Members Sue Lead Prosecutor For 1st Amendment Violations
- 2024, Ohio, Potential Ballot Measure Moves Forward to Eliminate Prosecutorial Immunity
- 2024, Minnesota, Murder Conviction Overturned Due to Prosecutorial Misconduct During the Trial
- 2024, California, Analysis of the 30 Plus Cases Where Prosecutors Committed Misconduct by Kicking Black and Jewish Jurors off of Death Penalty Cases
- 2024, Texas, Appellate Court Rules Death Row Inmate Melissa Lucio Wrongly Convicted Due to Prosecutors Presenting False Testimony and Illegally Hiding Favorable Evidence
- 2024, Colorado, Judge Dismisses Charges Against Driver in a Fatal Car Crash Over DA’s Failing to Disclose Favorable Witness Prior to Trial
- 2024, California, 35 Death Row Inmate Convictions Being Reviewed Due to a Finding of Egregious Prosecutorial Bias
- 2024, California, Two Death Penalty Sentences Overturned after Combined 62 Years In Prison After Finding Prosecutor Wrongly Excluded all Blacks and Jews from Jury
- 2024, Indiana, Epidemic of Prosecutorial and Police Misconduct Resulting in Exoneration of Numerous Innocent People Held in Prison for Decades.
- 2024, 50 Ethics Complaints Filed By Attorneys and Law Professors Are Made Public
- 2024, Washington, Court Overturns Murder Conviction After Finding the Prosecutor Repeatedly Committed Abhorrent Ethnic Bias and Misconduct
- 2024, New Jersey, After Seven Years, Prosecutor Found To Have Committed a Pattern of Misconduct Resulting in Reversal of Conviction and Exoneration of Rabbi.
- 2024, Pennsylvania, Prosecutor Withheld Evidence of Innocence at Murder Trial 20 Years Ago, and New Trial Ordered Due to Prosecutorial Misconduct.
- 2024, Colorado, 10th Circuit Finds Prosecutor Not Immune For Lying to The Court Causing People To Be Wrongly Arrested.
- 2024, NY, Arvell Marshall Exonerated From Murder Conviction After 33 Years In Prison After It Was Revealed the Prosecutor Withheld the Videotape Proving He Was Not Involved in the Murder.
- 2024, Texas, Benjamin Spencer Was Exonerated of a Murder Conviction, and Released From Prison after 35 Years, Partially Due To Prosecution Concealing Favorable Evidence.
- 2024, Colorado, Attorney Regulation Recommends Elected DA Stanley Be Disbarred for Committing a Pattern of Unethical Misconduct in a Murder Case.
- 2024, Colorado, Two Seasoned Prosecutors Receive Public Censure for Participating in an Attempt to Prejudice the Administration of Justice.
- 2024, Colorado, Federal District Court Rules Absolute Immunity Should be Revisited when Prosecutors Mishandle Criminal Cases
- 2024, Oklahoma, Attorneys General From Across the Country Agree To Stop Mr. Glossip’s Execution Where Prosecutors Admit They Failed To Turn Over Mounds of Exculpatory Evidence
- 2024, Kansas, Bill Opposed By Prosecutors to Limit Use of Jailhouse Informants and Which Would Reduce Wrongful Convictions.
- 2024, Texas, Decades after Ms. Lucero on Death Row, DA and Defense Agree Prosecutors Withheld Evidence That Points To Ms. Lucero’s Innocence.
- 2024, Louisiana, Former DA Harry Connick Sr., passes away, unfortunate legacy that he and his subordinates caused 32 people to be wrongly convicted and were later exonerated, four of people were on death row.
- 2024, Kentucky, No Financial Relief for People Wrongly Imprisoned for Decades
- 2024, US, 200 Death Sentenced People, and 142 of Those People Across 30 States Have Been Exonerated After Collectively and Wrongly Spending 2,261 in Harsh Prison Conditions As A Result of Official Misconduct.
- 2024, Colorado, Ex AG and DA Testify Against Elected Prosecutor Linda Stanley in 2 Disciplinary Trial For Egregious Prosecutorial Misconduct in Murder Cases
- 2024, California, Murder Conviction Overturned for Outrageous Governmental Conduct, The Prosecutor on the Case (Now Judge) Claims Did Not Know Evidence Was Illegally Withheld
- 2024, Colorado, Child Abuse Resulting in Death Dismissed As A Result of a Pattern of Intentional Prosecutorial Misconduct
- 2024, Moldova, Other Countries Take Action to Curb Prosecutorial Misconduct and Ensure Integrity
- 2024, Florida, Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct in Miami-Dade
- 2024, California, Federal Judge Orders Alameda County DA to Review All of Its Death Penalty Cases Due To Prosecutors Potentially Excluding Black and Jewish Jurors
- 2024, Colorado, Newly Elected Colorado DA Opines That A Former DA Was Wronged When Law License Was Suspended for Impersonating a Public Defender to Obtain Confession
- 2024, Kansas, Prosecutor Will Be Disbarred for Building Her Career While Framing (At Least One) Innocent Man Who Spent 23 Years In Prison
- 2024, New Jersey, Prosecutors Making Up Their Own Rules On When and What to Disclose to Defense Lawyers Knowingly Concealing Police Officers Misconduct
- 2024, Indiana, Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct, Including Pinning the Same Exact Independent Crime on Two Different Men of Murder Both Serving More than 20 years in Prison
- 2024, Ohio, Conviction Integrity Unit Created to Roll Back Numerous Wrongful Convictions As a Result of Corrupt Prosecutors
- 2024, New Mexico, High Profile Involuntary Manslaughter Case Dismissed Aganist Actor Alec Baldwin After Prosecutors Withheld Material and Exculpatory Evidence From The Defense
- 2024, SCOTUS, Absolute Prosecutorial Immunity Does, But Should Not Protect Prosecutors From Being Sued When They Tell Witness To Destroy Evidence of Innocence
- 2024, North Carolina, Historic Hearing Uncovers Significant History of Prosecutorial Misconduct in Death Penalty Cases
- 2024, Texas, Woman Sues DA for $1M After Being Wrongly Charged With Murder For An Abortion
- 2024, U.S., The Supreme Court Could Puncture Prosecutorial Immunity
- 2024, New Jersey, AG Takes Over DA’s Office as Lead Prosecutor Resigns Amid Misconduct Complaints.
- 2024, D.C., Prosecutors Buried Evidence. After 4 Years in Prison Conviction Reversed. After 10 Years Prosecutors were Elevated and Slapped on the Wrist
- 2024, New York, Failure to Launch- NY’s Prosecutorial Misconduct Commission
- 2024, Ohio, Uncontested Prosecutor Elections Ensure Lack of Accountability
- 2024, Colorado, Two More Colorado Prosecutors Outed With Text Messages Showing Retaliation Against Judge “Let’s Get Him” in High Profile Murder Case
- 2024, Colorado, 3 Colorado Prosecutors Facing Attorney Discipline for Prosecutorial Misconduct for Concealing Evidence
- 2024, Colorado, Prosecutors Topple Ethical Rules And By Teaming With YouTuber to Investigate Murder
- 2024, Florida, 2 Highly Trained Floridian Prosecutors Disqualified and Reported to the Bar for Concealing Evidence of Innocence and Making Favors to Witnesses
- 2024, Texas, Texas Prosecutor Disciplined for Wrongly Charging and Jailing a Woman with a Self-Induced Abortion
- 2024, D.C., 2 D.C. Prosecutors Wrongly Convicted Man Who Spent 4 Years In Prison After Withholding Evidence of Innocence. Prosecutors Slapped on Wrist 10 Years Later
- 2024, North Carolina, Mark Carver is Released After 10 years in prison, due to Prosecutors Withholding Eyewitness Testimony and Using Unreliable DNA Evidence to Wrongly Accuse and Convict Him
2023
- 2023, US, Absolute Immunity Shields Prosecutors From Being Sued for Their Grotesque Acts of Prosecutorial Misconduct
- 2023, Colorado, CO Supreme Court Reduces Murder Charge as a Deterrent to Pattern of Prosecutorial Misconduct
- 2023, Alabama, Washington Post Op Ed., 2 Former Alabama Governors Regret Executions
- 2023, Hawaii, ‘Where’s The Hammer?’ Hawaii Prosecutors Dodged Public Discipline for 40 Years Despite Misconduct.
- 2023, Colorado, 11th Judicial DA’s Office Under Investigation, 33 Cases Affected By Evidence Violations
- 2023, Colorado, County Commissioner Seeks to Oust Elected DA Linda Stanley For Complaints of Misconduct
- 2023, Colorado, County Commissioner Urges Voters To Recall Elected DA Stanley for Prosecutorial Misconduct
- 2023, Missouri, Lamar Johnson Exonerated for Murder Conviction After 28 Years in Prison Due to Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Hiding Evidence of Innocence
- 2023, New York, Absolute Prosecutorial Immunity Ensures that Prosecutors Will Remain Free as Ever to Weaponize the Criminal Legal System and Harm People of Color.
- 2023, New York, Anthony Broadwater Settles for 5.5 Million with New York for Wrongful Rape Conviction Due to Prosecutorial and Police Misconduct
- 2023, Oregon, Attorneys Frustrated That Prosecutors That Withheld Favorable Evidence In Multiple Cases Are Not Held Accountable And Cannot Be Sued
- 2023, New York, Judge Shines a Light on Endemic Prosecutorial Misconduct and Covering Up For Police
- 2023, Pennsylvania, Judge Dismisses Charges After Elected DA Lesley Childers-Potts’ Commits a Pattern of Reckless Prosecutorial Misconduct Harmful to the Public Trust
- 2023, Maryland, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan Grants Full Innocence Pardon to John N. Huffington
- 2023, Colorado, Fremont County Sheriff Compares Elected DA to the Criminals She Prosecutes.
- 2023, Washington D.C., Prosecutor in Chandra Levy Case Has Law License Suspended For Withholding Exculpatory Evidence
- 2023, Colorado, Office of Attorney Regulation Files Complaint Against Elected DA Linda Stanley and She Faces Losing Law License
- 2023, Minnesota, Senior Prosecutor Catherine McEnroe Faces Suspension over Professional Misconduct
- 2023, New York, Prosecutors intentionally buried evidence of innocence after Mr. Bell was in prison for 20 years. Mr. Bell awarded 17.5 million from New York State.
- 2023, Colorado, Jurors speak out against prosecutors after acquitting Man charged with murder.
- 2023, Colorado, Prosecutor Amy Ferrin commits misconduct and murder conviction is overturned.
- 2023, Kentucky, Prosecutor Rick Boling Facing Impeachment Inquiry by State Assembly for “Flagrant Prosecutorial Misconduct”
- 2023, Minnesota, Prosecutor McEnroe Under Investigation after Lying to Judge In Rape Trial Causing Dismissal of Case – An Injustice to the Victim.
- 2023, Georgia, Georgia Commission To Oversee Prosecutorial Misconduct Criticized For Lack of Transparency
- 2023, Colorado, Innocent Accused Morphew Requests that all 7 Prosecutors Be Disciplined by the Colorado Bar for Egregious Misconduct
- 2023, Florida, Tallahassee Prosecutors Show Widespread Racism in Seeking Convictions and Harsh Sentences
- 2023, Illinois, Chicago Prosecutors Sued for Improper Sexual Relationship with Defendant and for Failing to Intervene
- 2023, Colorado, Woman’s Assault Conviction and 9 Year Prison Sentence Overturned Due To Prosecutorial Misconduct
- 2023, New Orleans, Prosecutor Can Be Sued After Secretly Paying a Key Witness Who Testified in Wrongfully Convicted Man’s Case
- 2023, U.S., Courtwatch Project Launched To Keep the Injustice Out of The Criminal Legal System
- 2023, Maryland, Flagrant Prosecutorial Misconduct of Hiding Deal Made with Star Witness Waiting for Supreme Court Decision on Request to Dismiss Murder Conviction
- 2023, New York, Call to Criminalize Prosecutorial Misconduct After Prosecutors Hid Evidence, Lied to Jury And Coerced Witnesses In Wrongful Murder Conviction
- 2023, Maryland, Prosecutor Disbarred For Misconduct in Numerous Cases Including in John Huffington’s Case Who Was Pardoned from His Wrongful Peath Penalty Conviction
- 2023, Arizona, Former Arizona Prosecutor invented charges against innocent man faces state bar discipline.
- 2023, Florida, State Bar Disciplines Prosecutor for Eliciting and Bolstering False Testimony From Several Witnesses in a Criminal Trial
- 2023, U.S., A Call to End Prosecutorial Immunity
- 2023, Ohio, 100 prosecutors across Ohio committed prosecutorial misconduct – 13 of the prosecutors committed misconduct in numerous cases. None suffered any consequences.
- 2023, Colorado, Prosecutor Linda Stanley Found Responsible for a Pattern Withholding Evidence and Colorado Supreme Court Upheld Sanction to Reduce Murder Charge
- 2023, U.S., Database identifying prosecutors across the United States that have committed prosecutorial misconduct.
- 2023, Colorado, Prosecutor Zoe Laird commits misconduct and murder conviction overturned.
- 2023, Colorado, Murder Conviction Overturned for Prosecutorial Misconduct
2022
- 2022, Louisiana, After 28 Years, Mr. Reeder Released From Prison After Prosecutors Agreed Evidence of Innocence was Concealed.
- 2022, Louisiana, Mr. Weary Can Sue State Prosecutor for Fabricating Evidence That Caused The Reversal of His Death Penalty Sentence
- 2022, Kansas, Prosecutor Jacqueline Spralding disbarred for engaging in a serious pattern of egregious misconduct and “intolerable acts of deception” in murder case
- 2022, D.C., Prosecutor in Chandra Levy’s Murder Prosecution Found to Have Withheld Evidence From Defense Facing Suspension of Bar License
- 2022, U.S., In the Aftershock of Syed’s Release: A Call For Victims of Prosecutorial Misconduct To Be Able To Sue Their Prosecutors
- 2022, Missouri, Prosecutor admits she “mistakenly withheld evidence” during a failed attempted prosecution against former Missouri Republican Gov. Greitens, and is ordered to pay for legal fees for pursuing meritless appeals, said to be “playing with taxpayers’ dime”.
- 2022, Washington State, A US Citizen Was Wrongly Convicted and Exonerated after Spending 3 Years in Prison for Assault of a Police Officer Due to Prosecutor’s Comments to Jury About A Border Wall and Crimes Committed by Undocumented Immigrants
- 2022, Colorado, PEP Founder Pushes for Statewide Prosecutor Accountability Law
- 2022, Colorado Supreme Court Adopts New Prosecutorial Accountability Ethics Rule
- 2022, Colorado, Iris Eytan, Barry Morphew’s Attorney, takes Prosecutorial Misconduct Claims National
- 2022, California, Conviction for Negligent Homicide Overturned Due to Prosecutorial Misconduct
- 2022, California, Commission on Judicial Performance Finds that Ex-DA and Current Judge Committed Prosecutorial Misconduct in Murder Case in Failing to Disclose Evidence and Ex-DA was Deceptive in the Hearing.
- 2022, U.S., Prosecutorial Misconduct is Rampant and is the Leading Cause of More than 550 Capital Convictions Being Overturned.
- 2022, U.S., 1 in 20 Death Row Reversals Tied to Prosecutor Misconduct
- 2022, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Prosecutor Could Lose her License for Failing to Turn Over Evidence that Might Have Exonerated Defendants, “The Entire Criminal Justice System Has Suffered.”
- 2022, Colorado, Murder Conviction Reversed for Prosecutorial Misconduct. Prosecutor made “glaringly, egregiously improper call for justice” in closing remarks. Court ruled “Prosecutors have a higher ethical responsibility than other lawyers because of their dual role as both the sovereign’s representative in the courtroom and as advocates for justice”.
- 2022, Maryland, After Spending 23 Years in Prison on a Life Sentence Adnan Syed’s Conviction and Sentence Vacated Citing Prosecutorial Misconduct “the state no longer has confidence in the integrity of the conviction.”
- 2022, Florida, Convictions Reversed, New Trial Set, after Federal Judge States Cannot Wait for Disciplinary Board to take Action Against Prosecutors Who Committed Deliberate and Intentional Misconduct
- 2022, New York, Law Professors Outraged Over Epidemic of Prosecutorial Misconduct Published Complaints against 17 New York Prosecutors Asking They Be Disciplined
- 2022, Oklahoma, Former Oklahoma Governor calls to halt scheduled executions of 25 death row prisoners, after 30 death sentences imposed were reversed or people exonerated because of prosecutorial misconduct.
- 2022, California, Prosecutor Frietas Who Judge Confirmed Excluded a Black Juror Based on Race wins Primary DA Election Heading into 2022 General Election.
- 2022, Pennsylvania, Editorial: The Travesty of Innocence. The U.S. criminal system makes egregious mistakes, imprisoning many innocent people in state prisons.
- 2022, District of Columbia, “We Expect Better from an Attorney Representing the United States” referring to a US Attorney who made remarks in trial that were “improper and unbefitting of a federal prosecutor.”
- 2022, U.S., Looking Back: The Role of Prosecutors and Judges in Perpetuating Wrongful Convictions
- 2022, U.S., “It’s Crushing”: The Lasting Trauma of the Exonerated. Proving Your Innocence Is Only Part of the Battle to Put Your Life Together
- 2022, Louisiana, DA Williams who was acquitted on tax fraud charges states “Now, I have personally felt the pain, fear, isolation and disorientation of an abuse of power, of the abuse of prosecutorial discretion”
- 2022, U.S., C-SPAN, Former President Trump States There is Massive Prosecutorial Misconduct Going on All Over Our Country.
- 2022, Missouri, New Prosecutors Claim Lamar Johnson’s Murder Conviction and 27 year Imprisonment Constitutes a ‘manifest injustice’ citing ex-prosecutor unethically paid someone $4000 to falsely identify Mr. Johnson as one of the shooters.
- 2022, California, Fighting for a Decade and After Two Trials, Court Dismisses 21 Million Dollar Fraud Case for “grossly shocking and outrageous” prosecutorial conduct amounting to “flagrant prosecutorial misbehavior.”
- 2022, Virginia, Murder Charges Tossed Over Concerns over Prosecutorial Misconduct and Lack of Evidence
- 2022, New Jersey, New Trial Ordered Against Rabbi After Prosecutors Withheld Evidence in Trial and Judge Ruled the Evidence Would Likely Have Lead to an Exoneration. State Senators Cryan (D) and Singer (R) Outraged By The Prosecutors “ Disgraceful Conduct” and Called for Prosecutor Accountability in the Legislature
- 2022, U.S., What the Adnan Syed and Curtis Flowers Cases Highlight About Attorney Misconduct New Jersey Law Journal
- 2022, U.S., Innocent Black People Significantly More LIkely to Be Wrongly Convicted Than Innocent White People – Prosecutorial Misconduct Often the Source of Injustices.
2021
- 2021, Colorado, Murder Conviction Reversed after Prosecutor Misstated Jury Instructions
- 2021, New Jersey, Prosecutor Resigns Amid Multiple Complaints of Misconduct
- 2021, U.S., Prosecutorial Misconduct Played a Role in 30 Percent of Cases That Resulted in Exonerations Calling for Change, By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Executive Director of Fair and Just Prosecution and Barry Scheck, Co-Founder of the Innocence Project.
- 2021, U.S., New Federal Rule Requiring Federal Prosecutors Turn Over Favorable Evidence
- 2021, Michigan/Federal, A Michigan Attorney Discipline Board Reprimanded a Veteran Federal Prosecutor Over Her Inadmissible and Improper Trial Statements Marking a Rare Public Rebuke of a U.S. Government Lawyer
2010-2020
- 2020, Texas, Only One Prosecutor EVER Jailed (for 10 days) for Misconduct Leading to Overturned Murder Conviction
- 2020, Texas, Alfred Dewayne Brown released from death row after 12 years of wrongful imprisonment and was announced innocent resulting from prosecutors who concealed evidence of his innocence
- 2020, Ohio, Death Row Inmate who Spent 20 Years in Prison For Murder He did not Commit, Was Exonerated After Significant Prosecutorial Misconduct Was Revealed
- 2020, New York, Robert Majors Exonerated and freed after spending 23 years in prison for attempted murder after it was discovered prosecutors withheld evidence of innocence before the trial
- 2020, California, DA’s Office Hires A Deputy DA Found to Have Committed Prosecutorial Misconduct Causing a Murder Conviction to Be Reversed in Another County
- 2020, Federal Court, Federal Judge Slams Ex-Prosecutor for “Textbook Examples of Prosecutorial Misconduct”
- 2020, Pennsylvania, Roderick Johnson Released from Death Row And Murder Charges Dismissed after Wrongful Murder Conviction Due to Prosecutorial Misconduct
- 2020, Minnesota, Myron Burrell, a 16-year-old wrongly convicted of murder walks free after spending nearly 20 years in prison after it was discovered that Prosecutors ignored evidence of innocence and used shoddy expert testimony to bootstrap the lack of evidence and shoddy investigation
- 2019, Missouri, Lamar Johnson Wrongly Convicted of Murder and Exonerated After Spending 16 years in Prison Due to Fake Testimony Through Paid Witness at Trial
- 2017, Colorado, A Shocking String of Prosecutorial Abuse with No Repercussions
- 2010, Alabama, Foreword- New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations
Prosecutorial Reform Articles
Articles Written by Scholars, News Editors, Lawyers and Judges
Affirming That Prosecutorial Misconduct Will Not Be Eliminated without Eliminating Prosecutorial Immunity:
2020-2025
- 2024, Accountability NY Organization Outlines Prosecutorial Power and Misconduct
- 2023, History of The Power of the Prosecutor in America – Abuse, Misconduct, Unaccountability, and Miscarriages of Justice
- 2022, Prosecutors Should Not Be Above The Law
- 2021, How Can You (Prosecutors) Destroy a Person’s Life and Only Get a Slap on the Wrist
- 2020, NPAP Addresses Need to Eliminate Prosecutorial Absolute Immunity
- 2020, Due Process Protections Act
- 2020, This Prosecutor Asserts Prosecutors Are the Most Powerful Local Officials Your Vote for District Attorney
- 2020, Prosecutorial Immunity a Moral Failure
- 2020, Police or Prosecutor Misconduct Is at Root of Half of Exoneration Cases, Study Finds
- 2020, Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too
Pre-2020
- 2019, Prosecutorial Abuse in Disturbing Use of Jailhouse Informants
- 2018, Judge Frederic Block Lets Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity
- 2018, State by State Study of Prosecutor Ethics, Statutes, and Discovery Rules
- 2015, End Prosecutorial Immunity Period
- 2010, Report Finds Many California Prosecutors Have Committed Misconduct
- 1999, The Verdict – Prosecutorial Dishonor – Chicago Tribune
- 1940, The Federal Prosecutor – Robert H Jackson Center