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Imbler v. Pachtman and Texas prosecutor Ken Anderson
In 2013 Texas (Williamson County) District Attorney Ken Anderson served a 10 day jail sentence for prosecutorial misconduct. Quoting https://innocenceproject.org/news/ken-anderson-michael-morton-...
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Personal Misconduct That May Result in a Lawyer's Censure or Disbarment
Is there some type of Code of (Personal) Conduct that lawyers in the United States must abide by under the penalty of either censure of disbarment? What personal kinds of personal misconduct might ...
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Can a judge be removed from a trial for bias?
Judges and juries are supposed to be impartial. Jurors are removed all the time for being potentially biased towards one side in a case.
A judge in a case that is a current event as of writing , has ...
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Can a police officer be charged with despotism?
Can a US police officer be charged with despotism?
Note: In Germany I heard it is possible
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Permissibility of ex-parte communication for judges in the US
Watching some legal movies it struck me as odd where judges are portrayed talking to one of the parties in the absence of the other (ex-parte communication). Say in New Zealand, this amounts to ...
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Exclusionary Rule and testimony
Let's say a police officer searches a property without a warrant, and discovers a couple of people imprisoned there.
Would their testimony against the owner later be inadmissible as it's a result of ...
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