- Joe Palazzolo, Main Justice: Justice Department Opposes Expanded Brady Rule
- Radley Balko, Reason: No Accountability: Why are bad prosecutors so rarely punished?
- Brian Rogers, Houston Chronicle: Harris County prosecutor accused of hiding evidence
- Chuck Lindell, Austin Statesman: CCA upheld Travis prosecutorial misconduct finding by appellate court
Friday, October 30, 2009
Prosecutorial Misconduct Roundup
Here are several recent stories related to prosecutorial misconduct that merit Grits readers' attention:
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The Austin American-Statesman reported on its Web site Friday that a report prepared by Evans and an assistant regarding her Sept. 22-23 visit to the Al Price State Juvenile Correctional Facility in Beaumont said Evans carried "a brown canvas bag containing a weapon, an iPhone, prescription medicine and $300" through a security checkpoint at the gatehouse.
"Ms. Evans carried her bag through the metal detector and the alarm sounded," the report said. "Ms. Evans opened her bag and the guard glanced in, but none of the items listed above were identified. The guard made no further effort to identify what set off the detector's alarm."
Evans later was caught entering the Crockett State School with a weapon and other prohibited items.
Hurley said Evans is barred from youth lockups until the investigation is complete but can report to her office at agency headquarters.
Evans is a former Dallas County juvenile judge who chaired the Texas Youth Commission Advisory Board.
This can't be right. Over at Murray's blog they say prosecutors never do anything wrong.
Lurk here often. Never told you how much I appreciate someone dedicating the amount of time that you do to recording the corruption in this world. Someday, I hope to get far enough ahead to contribute to you.
Right now, I am strapped because I am supporting an older american in her fight with cancer in one of the latin american countries. Some day she will be well, I hope, until then the best of wishes for you.
Look on the bright side: at least official misconduct still makes the news, unlike burglary of a habitation, aggravated assault, and most rapes. We'll really be in trouble when it is so common as to not be newsworthy.
Grits: WTF is going on with the Evans story. Was she working a "test" of security or does she have a BF/GF inside?
Speaking of misconduct. What about PO officers? How do you make a complaint on them? This would pertaining to info written on a presentencing form.There was 10 to 15 errors,lies, or ommited info on it.
Pretty much you can't complain against the BPP or the Parole Officers because what they say goes and THEY are always right and doing the right thing.....We are living thruogh this nightmare as we speak. Just like the case in AUstin that the ex offender won against the BPP where he was being put on a sex offender case load because in 1989 he was accused of rape but never convicted, but because there was a police report and all he had to be guilty right?? Wrong! We are dealing with this same BS that the BPP wants to impose on my husband and he was given a polygraph at the PO office by someone THEY brought in and wanted to say he failed ALL questions....2 were "is the light on in this room?" and the other was "Have you committed any felonies since being on parole?" Mind you he isn't able to drive, he is on a monitor and is only allowed out at certain times and that is when I take him somewhere. He hasn't drank a drop of alcohol and hasn't done any drugs....he hasn't done anything to violate his parole, but they wasnted to say he lied across the board on his whole polygraph and now they are requiring him to come in and get "evaluated" by one of there therapists to see if he needs to be put on a sex offender case load (mind you he was already given over from a regular PO to this sex offender PO)....This smells of a rat to me....He was accused of rape but never convicted....the evidence wasn't there, the doctors report proved no sexual assault or rape. BUT because there is a police report and the girl who accused him of this recanted and admitted she lied, the DA there would not back off of it....he threatened to deport her if she did not testify against him....and when the case fell apart....he went for kidnapping charges, because she said he tied her up. The PO told my husband that police and DA's do not make up things or try to railrod people into charges.....hmmmm I beg to differ....it's proven all over this country all the time!! THere are many cops and all in the jails for one reason or the other....CORRUPTION is everywhwere!
Well when you say you can't file a complaint on a PO officer...You can turn cops into internal affairs and it worked for me.Attorneys into the bar association,so why are PO"s exempt? When they provide info to the court that is purposively incorrect then thats not right.
Because you are even told that if you are on parole everything effects it....you don't want to cross a PO because you life is in their hands and they are under the protection of the secret society called the TX BPP....which we have seen time and time again what they are capable of doing....they impose sex offender on a lot of offenders coming out on parole because they can and have gotten away with it for so long now....and when looking into what it would take to get a lawsuit going against them....you better have the bucks to cough up and then finding an attorney that would actually go after them....good luck. I do have to give kudos to the one in Austin who just 2 weeks ago won against the BPP for being labeled a sex offender 5 yrs after he was put on parole.....he found an attorney at the small cost of $100K and kudos to Judge Sam Sparks for letting the BPP know they can't do this to these offenders who were never convicted of a sexual crime.....just accused. They say it's because they are looking out for the safety of the public and of anyone "could" possibly be a danger to the public then that is what we look at....welll as Judge Sparks said...."We could all be a danager to the public at any given time, including this federal judge sitting here before you." We had to go to an evaluation that was exhausting and took almost 5 hours and it consisted of 8 tests....so the State of Texas is wanting to make my husband guilty of something he was proven not to have done in another state 10 yrs ago, but because he spent time here for DWI and is now out on parole....they want to impose this as a special condition on his parole and put him under super intensive supervision. As it stands right now, he can't drive, he is on lockdown every friday, the only 2 nights he is allowed out is 2 nights a week to go to AA and they days he's allowed out I am working so he sits in our home. We don't have buses that come close to where we live so I have to take off to get him around to where he needs to go whether it's the PO office, Dr. appts, or any appts or classes they require him to go to. The PO's are pretty much just as untouchable as they GREAT and MIGHTY BPP...no one makes them accountable....and who will believe an ex offender over a PO? Reality check is, if you've been in prison you are the liar, the bad person, and as they stated to him the other day....we know you all say you don't do this or that, but we know different and cops don't make up or try to trump up charges against people....okay so just because you wear a badge or a uniform it automatically makes you an honest person and someone who would never ever be a threat or do something you shouldn't??? Well if I hadn't gone through all this with my husband I wouldn't have seen fist hand the ridiculous crap the BPP represents from Austin to all the PO offices through out Texas.
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