Here's a tiny sample:
[Q] - A “not guilty” verdict was returned on a drug case in Miami,
but what happened during the investigation and prosecution of this
case has now resulted in an award of $601,795.88 under the Hyde
Amendment. The Hyde Amendment allows for attorney fees when a
“prevailing criminal defendant” can demonstrate “that the position the
government took in prosecuting him was vexatious, frivolous, or in bad
faith.” (see Order, infra, citing U.S. v. Gilbert).
Hon. Alan S. Gold, in the Southern District of Florida, issued an
Order awarding these attorney fees and enjoined the US Attorneys who
practice in that court from “engaging in future witness tampering
investigation of defense lawyers and team members in any ongoing
prosecution before [this judge] without first bringing such matters to
[the judge's] attention in an ex parte proceeding.” The judge also
issued a public reprimand against the US Attorneys office and
specifically 2 AUSAs. And it does not end there, as the judge also
makes it clear that a disciplinary body needs to review this
matter. . . .
DOJ, the enforcer against corporate misconduct and the one who
requests the appointment of monitors in deferred prosecution
agreements, may seem to be having its own issues. --
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/whitecollarcrime_blog/2009/04/its-not-just-the-stevens-case-doj-needs-a-better-compliance-program.html
Meanwhile, how many death row inmates have been exonerated because the
prosecutors couldn't lose, hide, or destroy the relevant DNA?
Let's also remember the famous words of Charlie Crist, now Florida
governor, then Florida Attorney General: ""Expediency is more
important than innocence." This after he tried to ram through
legislation ordering the destruction of DNA evidence older than two
years in settled cases.
In other words, the criminals are running the court system.
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