Groundbreaking Study Documents How Courts Are Impeding Fair Disclosure in Criminal Cases [like this is a big surprise in San Beat&Hangem County]

From a press release from nacdl.org via mailmanager.net



On November 17, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, NACDL officially released its latest report, Material Indifference: How Courts Are Impeding Fair Disclosure in Criminal Cases, a major study produced jointly with the VERITAS Initiative at Santa Clara Law School. The event featured comments by NACDL President Theodore Simon, NACDL Executive Director Norman L. Reimer (who also moderated the event), and special guests David W. Ogden, former Deputy Attorney General who is now a partner at the WilmerHale firm, and the Hon. Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The report's co-authors – VERITAS Initiative Director and Professor Kathleen "Cookie" Ridolfi, NACDL White Collar Crime Policy Counsel Tiffany M. Joslyn, and VERITAS Initiative Pro Bono Research Attorney Todd H. Fries – also discussed their findings and recommendations. The event was broadcast live by C-SPAN and video is now available on demand.
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In courtrooms across the nation, accused persons are convicted without ever having seen information that was favorable to their defense. The frequency with which this occurs and the role it plays in wrongful convictions prompted NACDL and the VERITAS Initiative to undertake an unprecedented study of Brady claims litigated in federal courts over a five-year period. The study asked: What role does judicial review play in the disclosure of favorable information to accused? The results revealed a troubling answer – the judiciary is impeding fair disclosure in criminal cases and, in doing so, encouraging prosecutors to disclose as little favorable information as possible. The report exposes in stark detail the depth and breadth of the problem and offers three reform proposals that would serve as mechanisms for increasing fair disclosure in criminal cases.
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Following the report’s release, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced plans to re-introduce the bipartisan Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act and affirmed the need for reform: “We can no longer allow the government to have a finger on the scales of justice, tipping it in its favor.”
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Complete copies of the report, executive summary, and fact sheet are available at www.nacdl.org/discoveryreform/materialindifference. Learn more about NACDL's work in the area of discovery reform, including links to model legislation and more, at www.nacdl.org/discoveryreform.\.
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Who is policing this?
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www.nacdl.org/discoveryreform/materialindifference.

District Attorney Mike Ramos is trying to create a 3rd Assistant DA slot for his girlfriend- time for some more whistle blowing and maybe a discriminatory promotion complaint??

See for breaking story: http://sbsentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sentinel-11-14-141.pdf-
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Bob's 2 cents worth?
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The total culture of fear and domination created by this DA has been emboldened by support from the recently re-elected Kamala Harris to State Attorney General, despite Ramo's record of retaliatory firings & prosecutions, sexually-influenced promotional decision-making, harassment and over-reaching. Kamala Harris will either wake up and realize that Ramos is someone she should be looking professionally at or go down with him in the public eye.
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The real crime is not in the selection of a pillow talk buddy for a newer and better paying job, but in victims' failure to file appropriate charges with governmental agencies for the preferential hired BASED upon sex and or age. How many qualified men and women have to be offended  and economically damaged by this before someone takes the step to make formal complaints.
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Heh, living in unsubsidized world of private practice ain't so bad. At least you will be doing something that is righteous (for yourselves).