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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Withholding exculpatory evidence should be punished with a one year mandatory minimum. That'd fix a lot of this.
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There was a terribly egregious case in Texas in 1987 that resulted in a prosecutor actually losing his license and spending a few days in jail for contempt of court in 2011. The legislature passed the Michael Morton Act in 2013, which requires the prosecution to turn over everything, exculpatory or not, they get to the defense. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs...f/SB01611F.pdf I think this is the final version.
The case was real popular among CLE ethics presenters when it was going on. I heard from one of Mr. Morton's defense attorneys two years in a row at one of the conferences I attend. It's a pretty fascinating case.
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