Codify the common law offence of misconduct in public office and make it a criminal offence.
The appeal court decided that he had "misdirected" the jury on a key aspect of the ancient common law offence of misconduct in a public office.
But she added: "I have concluded that there is insufficient evidence against either suspect to provide a realistic prospect of conviction for the common law offence of misconduct in a public office or conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office".
As well as applying to councillors and their officials, this would also cover ministers, civil servants, judges, the police, quangos and perhaps even privatised utilities.There is already a common-law offence of "misconduct in a public office," but it is rarely used, perhaps because it is so vague.
But some of the people whom Mr. Paladino has recruited to run his campaign are plagued by brushes with the law and allegations of misconduct, an examination of public records shows.
It told of how a case accusing law-enforcement officials of misconduct in a small New Jersey town was quashed, reportedly because of political influence.
The prosecutor argued that state law required that reports of misconduct be made in good faith, and that Mrs. Mitchell had been waging a vendetta against Dr. Arafiles since his arrival at the hospital in April 2008.
Misprision, in law, criminal misconduct of various types.
Many see the death of Rev. Booker, and Denver's decision that no policies were violated, as the culmination of a long series of incidents in which Denver authorities have tolerated, acquiesced in, or ignored serious allegations of law enforcement misconduct.
Although Sessions said police "must be held accountable" when they fail in their duties, his testimony suggested a departure from the Obama administration's more aggressive approach to combating patterns of law enforcement misconduct.
