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From: "Leon F." <leonf@perspicuity.net>
Subject: FEAR: Prosecutorial Misconduct Study
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Here is your chance to contribute to fighting a growing problem (an 
epidemic?) in the US today: Prosecutorial Misconduct. Steve Weinberg, 
professor at the University of Missouri, and Neil Gordon, a Center for 
Public Integrity
attorney are  doing a major study on this issue. The following is copied 
from the announcement at the Truth In Justice site, 
http://www.truthinjustice.org/misconduct.htm:

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Prosecutorial Misconduct Study

Steve Weinberg, a veteran investigative journalist, is researching specific 
cases of prosecutorial misconduct that lead to wrongful convictions. He 
would like to hear from anybody--prisoners, their families and friends, 
lawyers, expert and lay witnesses, jurors, medical examiners, police 
officers, judges--with evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.

Weinberg, who lives in Columbia, Mo., is a former newspaper reporter and 
magazine staff writer turned book author. For this project, he is working 
with the Center for Public Integrity, a consortium of journalists, lawyers 
and researchers in Washington, D.C., that specializes in uncovering 
systemic problems. Working closely with Weinberg is a Center staff lawyer, 
Neil Gordon, who is based in Washington, D.C. Funding for the prosecutorial 
misconduct project is coming from several sources, most prominently the 
Open Society Institute, New York City.

The research will be disseminated by the Center for Public Integrity, quite 
possibly in the form of a book from a major publisher. Weinberg and Gordon 
plan to name names of prosecutors who cross the line, especially in 
jurisdictions where wrongful convictions have occurred repeatedly.

Weinberg can be contacted in these ways:

  E-mail: weinbergs@missouri.edu
Telephone: 573 882-5468
Fax: 573 882-5431
Home address: 807 West Blvd. South, Columbia, Mo. 65203

Read Steve Weinberg's account of the Ellen Reasonover story, Railroaded, 
http://www.truthinjustice.org/pilate.htm, published in The American Lawyer.

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See http://www.newswise.com/articles/2001/5/CONDUCT.UMC.html for another 
announcement of this project.

Surely the business of seizing private property, with the economic 
incentives driving it, is a major source of examples of bad conduct by 
prosecutors and their henchmen.  Unfortunately most of the stories on the 
FEAR web site are dated. We need fresh stuff to sent to Dr. Weinberg. So, 
please, everyone, lets try to find some really good examples to send them.

Leon Felkins
Exec. Dir., FEAR


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