These include, he said, incompetent defense counsel, shoddy or fraudulent crime labs, inaccurate identification by witnesses, false confessions, misconduct by the police and prosecutors, and reliance on incriminating testimony from inmates who negotiate with the authorities, witnesses often referred to by defense lawyers as "jailhouse snitches".
In its announcement on Thursday, the CPS said: "In reviewing the case we have considered whether there is sufficient evidence to allow charges of rape, indecent assault, procuring a woman to have sexual intercourse by false pretences, misconduct in public office and breaches of the Official Secrets Act.
Melania Trump, a rare figure on the campaign trail, said she believed the media and Hillary Clinton's campaign were working together to launch false sexual misconduct allegations against her husband, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Any one of us could be days, hours, minutes, seconds away from wrongful conviction and execution - victims of mistaken identity by an eyewitness, prosecutorial or police misconduct, false testimony or ineffective legal defense.
"It was pretty hard to find an attorney that would take my case and fight the government," said the sheriff, Dave Meneley, who was later removed from office by a two-judge panel who found that he had engaged in false testimony and misconduct.
However, assistant district attorney Shanda Strain said at McMillan's sentencing hearing: "The defendant not only physically assaulted the police officer but also levelled false accusations of misconduct against him in an effort to avoid her own criminal responsibility for the assault".
Surrey Police said a woman had been arrested on suspicion of wilfully pretending to be a barrister, making and using false instruments, and misconduct in a public office and had been bailed until 2 July.
Less than two weeks after the 25-year-old died from a spinal injury following an aggressive arrest and transport by police, Mosby charged involved officers with depraved heart murder, assault, false imprisonment, and misconduct in office.
The other officers were charged with a host of lesser crimes, including involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, false imprisonment, and misconduct in office charges, based on their role in the transport.
The FOP also wants the public to believe that they are legally defenseless under a barrage of false accusations of misconduct describing a "patently unfair disparity in rights afforded criminal suspects but not police officers".
