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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Litigation & Arbitration

May 3, 2023

Group seeking to overturn convictions says bar didn’t charge prosecutors

A report by the Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice stated that during a 13-year period leading up to 2009 the State Bar disciplined six prosecutors.

Prosecutors in California rarely faced consequences for serious misconduct in cases tried between 1997 and 2009, according to a report published Tuesday by a group dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions.

“It Could Happen to You: The California Report on Prosecutorial Misconduct” follows up on 2010 data gathered by the Northern California Innocence Project. The report was issued by The Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice, which a...

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