... of proper summation by prosecutors and goes on to explain how summation misconduct results in wrongful convictions. It then considers the reasons for the prevalence of prosecutorial misconduct during summation and offers suggestions to address the problem of improper closing arguments. closing arguments...

... to include adherents of other political ideologies, elected officials, foreign governments, and Amnesty International. After several witnesses admitted to perjury, in 1980, faced with both a mobilized domestic and international public outcry and overwhelming evidence of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct...

...Prosecutors have a complicated role in which they are tasked with convicting the guilty while also protecting the innocent. However, prosecutors sometimes abrogate their duties, which can result in miscarriages of justice. Prosecutorial misconduct includes activities like failure to disclose...

... prosecutorial misconduct government misconduct Upon their convictions the Wilmington Ten, unable immediately to post appeal bonds, were remanded to the prison system to begin serving their sentences. The United Church of Christ had sufficient funds to get only its employee Ben Chavis released, but Chavis...

...This chapter focuses on prosecutorial misconduct. In particular, it attempts to illustrate that the line between legal prosecutorial behavior and illegal prosecutorial misconduct is a thin one. It also examines whether a number of factors, including the Supreme Court's jurisprudence...

... governing prosecutorial misconduct. The rules do not significantly address prosecutors’ charging and plea bargaining decisions—controversial areas of practice relegated to prosecutorial discretion—and do not codify some professional expectations, such as those regarding prosecutors’ heightened duty...