Misconducts Affecting Fair Trial Discussion

Misconducts Affecting Fair Trial Discussion

  • What types of misconduct can be committed, and how does it affect a defendant’s right to a fair trial?
  • What are the functions of the prosecutor and defense attorney?
  • Under what circumstances might prosecutors engage in misconduct?
  • What remedies have the courts found for attorney misconduct that occurs during a criminal prosecution?

  • Fry, T. (2012). PROSECUTORIAL TRAINING WHEELS: GINSBURG’S CONNICK V. THOMPSON DISSENT AND THE TRAINING IMPERATIVE. Journal Of Criminal Law & Criminology, 102(4), 1275.
  • Hardy v. Cross, (565 U.S. ____, 132 S. Ct. 1626; 182 L. Ed. 2d 224 (2011)
  • UNITED STATES v. RUIZ: certiorari to the United States court of appeals for the ninth circuit. (2009). Supreme Court Cases: The Twenty-first Century (2000 – Present), 1.

Champion and Hartley, Chapters 3 and 4