Friday, August 19, 2016

Harmless as a Matter of Law

Affirming convictions for money laundering, the panel held that a prosecutor’s failure to correct false testimony before a grand jury and failure to disclose impeachment information about a grand jury witness – even if done intentionally – do not constitute structural error requiring automatic reversal, but are harmless as a matter of law after a petit jury returns a guilty verdict. [More]
Yeah, what the hell does the truth have to do with justice, anyway?

[Via Geordan]

2 comments:

Elmo said...

And, at the risk of repeating myself (forgive me):

"Prosecutorial perjury is not sufficient to demonstrate prosecutorial misconduct."
California Attorney General and future United States Senator Kamala Harris (Democrat).

Longbow said...

The is no LAW anymore.

All that exists is, "What can we get away with?".