Sentence examples for prosecutorial errors from inspiring English sources
Later in the process, prosecutorial errors were said to include giving immunity to squad mates whose credibility as witnesses was questioned.
Mr. Owen, of the Capital Punishment Center, said police and prosecutorial errors raised serious questions about whether Mr. Banks had actually committed the murder.
According to Robert Katz's account of the trial, Judge Alvin Schlesinger thought the prosecution had done an excellent job presenting its case – one handicapped by inadmissible apartment search warrants and other earlier prosecutorial errors.
He spent three years on death row before a new team of high-priced lawyers financed by a fund-raising campaign in Spain won him a new trial on the basis of prosecutorial errors.
International watchdogs have pointed to a lack of trained investigators and a series of prosecutorial errors as part of the tragicomedy that led to the tattered outcome of Minova.
(Some observers of the case say the case against the Marines fell apart largely due to prosecutorial errors).
The defendants said their hopes had been buoyed by the revelations of prosecutorial error.
That sentence was vacated by an appellate court because of prosecutorial error during the trial, but the conviction was upheld.
"His conviction is contaminated by more sources of error -- prosecutorial misconduct, police misconduct, incompetent defense counsel, unprecedented prejudicial pretrial publicity, junk science, probably false confessions and mistaken eyewitness identification -- than any other case we have studied".
That one piece of evidence — obtained from a technology with known limitations, and susceptible to human error and prosecutorial misuse — might mistakenly lead to execution at the hands of the state should send chills down every one of our spines.
To criticize defense attorneys, the chief checks against prosecutorial abuse, is to promote a judicial system of error by stigmatizing a key motivator for better prosecution.
