Nelson was only added to its “potential impeachment disclosure” list, or Brady List, after he was charged with killing Sarey. A trial is set for February 2022. Mohammad Hamoudi, a federal public defender, said given Officer Nelson’s history, all of his cases should be reviewed. And he hopes his story will encourage prosecutors to track excessive force cases involving other police officers.
The AP also found that many prosecutors and police unions have gone to great lengths to keep Brady List information from becoming public.Now, defense attorneys, public defenders, civil rights groups and even some prosecutors are calling for an increased use of Brady Lists and a broadening of the offenses that will land a police officer on them, while police unions are resisting those efforts.
Brady Lists stem from a ruling in the 1963 Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland mandating prosecutors turn over exculpatory evidence to defense attorneys, including information that could be used to question the officers’ credibility. But the ruling did not define the steps prosecutors and police departments must take to ensure defendants are informed or whether lists of troubled officers must be kept at all.
Dishonesty lands an officer on the list in Detroit, Denver, and Seattle, but using excessive force does not. The California Legislature approved a bill last year that required prosecutors to maintain a list of officers who have had “sustained findings for conduct of moral turpitude or group bias,” but Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the measure due to the cost of such “a significant state mandate.”When Larry Krasner was elected Philadelphia district attorney in 2017, his staff discovered a “do not call” list of police officers that had been compiled by a previous prosecutor.
Using Brady List information, Bridge has filed motions to dismiss about 6,000 convictions based on officer misconduct, with more than 2,000 convictions thrown out so far.“The problem is, there’s no way to know,” he said. “I have no idea how to evaluate whether they’re guilty or not guilty because the officer’s behavior in the cases is too tainted.”
Kym Worthy, the prosecutor for Wayne County, Michigan, which includes Detroit, also is disclosing Brady List material to defense attorneys and the public “because in an era of criminal justice reform,” she said, “it just makes sense.”
you cannot reform the pigs. PERIOD.
More anti police rhetoric spewed by the AP. Not surprising just sad. REMEMBER PEOPLE, THE POLICE ARE THE BAD GUYS, JUST SO YOU DON'T FORGET WE'LL REMIND YOU EVER DAY!!!
What kind of society do we live in where inocente people r lock up without due process, where Hispanics babies are snatched from their mothers arms and lock up in cages at the border
Put badge on Crip or Blood, or any gang member, criminal, and you have the usual cop, 9 of 10 times when one time is too many.
Shouldn't be in public service if not willing to 'live' up to oath to protect!
The drug war has cops filling private prisons with poor people who then provide billions in free labor to private corporations that pay no taxes. They have no interest in reform.
vote them out. in most places DA is an elected position.
Democrats = defund the police
Prosecutors are just cops who actually know the law
His dog is a weapon. A weapon is not a companion. My favorite weapon is a body cam :D my favorite gun is the one animal hospitals use to look at cells of wild creatures that need a vaccine before I kiss and give them a COVID blanket to freeze to death in. We could eradicate lymes
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