Today’s legal roundup.

Three stories from the NYT:

  1. The Orleans Parish district attorney’s office has a problem. A big problem. A Supreme Court level problem. And this isn’t their first go-around at the rodeo: they’ve been before the Court twice in two years. What’s their major malfunction?

    Each of the cases involves charges of prosecutorial misconduct, and in particular the failure to turn over crucial evidence to the defense, a constitutional violation that defense lawyers, former prosecutors and four Supreme Court justices have said was at least at one time “pervasive” in the district attorney’s office here. In the case last year, one of the key issues was not whether the misconduct took place, but just how widespread it was.

    The Orleans Public Defenders office, in a brief supporting Mr. Smith, said that 28 convictions obtained by the district attorney’s office were later ruled to have been tainted by violations of this kind.
    The district attorney’s office disagrees, saying the correct number is 13.

  2. Todd Remis didn’t like his wedding photos. So he decided to sue the photographer. Fair enough, right? Well:
  3. “This spate of unrelated corruption prosecutions, and what some see as the Internal Affairs Bureau’s spotty record of uncovering major cases involving crooked officers, raise questions about the department’s ability to police itself, said nearly a dozen current and former prosecutors who have handled corruption cases, as well as some current and former Internal Affairs supervisors and investigators.”

Edited to add: I don’t get this. When I preview this post, the numbered list shows as a numbered list (1,2,3) and the nested unordered list shows with bullets instead of numbers, exactly the way it should show. But when I look at it in Firefox, I get two nested numbered lists. Anyone see anything different in other browsers?

3 Responses to “Today’s legal roundup.”

  1. Ruth says:

    Viewing on the Ipad version of safari, I see two numbered, nested, lists

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