New York criminal defense lawyer Howard Weiner explains new guidelines which have been issued to all federal prosecutors in criminal cases. The guidelines come in the wake of the dismissal of several high profile cases, including the KPMG case, Ted Stevens, and the Blackwater prosecutions, all of which were based upon prosecutorial misconduct.
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Chemists Must Testify, Supreme Court Says
A lab chemist must be called to testify in order to admit a lab analysis as evidence at trial, the Supreme Court recently held in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 07-591 (June 22, 2009). This case effectively ends the government’s routine practice of entering into evidence one sided, conclusory reports prepared by government lab technicians for the sole [...]
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