Judge: DoJ tolerates prosecutorial misconduct


	Judge: DoJ tolerates prosecutorial misconduct

jklugman

7-3-2007 8:11 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4747775f-b5ce-44a7-9b5d-1e28b40aaa4c/46943E18-7A8A-4EB1-8BB7-F03ECF3FFB9F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/7/3/175639/1808" href="http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/7/3/175639/1808" style="font-size: 11px;">www.talkleft.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/7/3/175639/1808">The chief judge of the <SPAN class="caps">U.S.</SPAN> District Court in Boston, Mark Wolf, <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/washington/03justice.htm">wrote to Alberto Gonzales</A> (for all the good it will do) complaining that the Justice Department's private reprimand of <SPAN class="caps">AUSA</SPAN> Jeffrey Auerhahn was an unduly lenient response to Auerhahn's decision to withhold exculpatory evidence from the defense.  That misconduct, in the words of Judge Wolf, “required the release from prison of a capo in the Patriarca family of La Cosa Nostra.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/7/3/175639/1808"><P>Oddly, although the Justice Department's internal Office of Professional Responsibility concluded in 2005 that the evidence was exculpatory and that Auerhahn had a duty to disclose it, the Department argued in a 2006 brief that the evidence wasn't material and that disclosure wasn't required.  The author of that brief apparently didn't receive the <SPAN class="caps">OPR </SPAN>memo.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/7/3/175639/1808">“It is disturbing,” Judge Wolf wrote, “that the Department of Justice continued to advocate positions which <SPAN class="caps">O.P.R. </SPAN>had flatly rejected.”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46943E18-7A8A-4EB1-8BB7-F03ECF3FFB9F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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