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Criminal Prosecutors Get Their Day In Court
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1996, page 15
In March 1996, U.S. District court judge Sandra Brown Armstrong, in Oakland, California, dismissed "with prejudice,'' the criminal charges against four Dublin, California federal prisoners because of what she termed "serious misconduct" by prosecutors.
Filed under:
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Informants,
Escapes.
Location:
California.
On February 5, 1996, judge Armstrong issued a 43 page order against two assistant U.S. Prosecuting …
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