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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Courts - "Exonerated inmate won't get $14M "
A USA TODAY story by Brad Heath reeports:
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court made it more difficult to sue local prosecutors' offices for courtroom wrongdoing on Tuesday, overturning a $14 million verdict for a New Orleans man who came within weeks of being executed for a murder he did not commit. * * *Tuesday's decision is the latest in a series of rulings that have made it more difficult to sue prosecutors and their bosses over misconduct. The court decided 35 years ago that individual prosecutors are immune from civil rights lawsuits for their work in the courtroom.
The violations in Thompson's case were similar to those documented last year by a USA TODAY investigation of misconduct by federal prosecutors. The newspaper detailed 201 criminal cases since 1997 in which judges concluded that federal prosecutors violated laws or ethics rules.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 30, 2011 09:19 AM
Posted to Courts in general