Long time readers of this blog know I often complain about the fact that
courts do not seem to take prosecutorial misconduct too seriously. Go here, here, and here, for a few examples; and you
can go to the prosecutors tag and scroll down for lots of stories, and links on the topic.
Well, today, I am posting good news, for a change. Almost exactly one year ago, I posted (here) that California had adopted a new law to bolster a judge's ability to disqualify a
prosecutor or an entire prosecuting attorney's office and to make it mandatory for judges to report violations
to the state bar.
Now, California has gone even further by making it a felony crime to withhold exculpatory evidence. Violators of the law could be sentenced to up to three years in prison. The ABA Journal has more details here.
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