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Prosecutorial Misconduct Case Pending Before Supreme Court Settles for $12 Million
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2010
by Brandon Sample
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2010, page 36
On January 4, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court side-stepped resolving an important case that would have likely exposed prosecutors to greater liability when they engage in prosecutorial misconduct.
Filed under:
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Wrongful Conviction,
Immunity/Liability,
Prosecutorial Immunity.
Location:
Iowa.
The case, Pottawamie County v. McGhee and Harrington, S.Ct. No. 08-1065, was filed by Curtis W. McGhee, Jr. and Terry J. Harrington ...
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