New Hampshire v. Etienne, 2011 N.H. LEXIS 189 (N.H. 2011).
A criminal defendant convicted of murder appealed his conviction on the grounds, among others, that the Attorney General’s office had failed to disclose exculpatory evidence at his trial. One of the witnesses at the defendant’s trial had been prosecuted by the Attorney General’s office for unrelated drug charges, and the Attorney General’s office had recommended…
Johnson v. Kentucky, 2012 Ky. App. LEXIS 10 (Ky. Ct. App. 2012)
Defendant sought to dismiss three counts of trafficking in a controlled substance, arguing that the Attorney General did not have jurisdiction to conduct an investigation in Powell County because no local law enforcement was involved in the investigation, and the Attorney General was not invited to participate, as required by Kentucky statutes. The district court…
Washington v. District of Columbia, 2012 D.C. App. LEXIS 504 (D.C. Ct. App. 2012).
In the District of Columbia, the prosecutorial authority is divided, with the D.C. attorney general’s office (AGO) prosecuting some minor crimes, and the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia (USAO) prosecuting most other criminal violations. Unbeknownst to each other, both the AGO and the USAO filed charges against defendant, who had injured people…
Ex parte State of Alabama [Petition for Writ of Mandamus], No. 1120498 (Ala. Feb. 15, 2013).
An investigator with the Alabama attorney general’s office sought a search warrant for a facility where allegedly illegal gambling devices were located. The district court judge declined to issue the warrant because the sheriff of the county had certified the machines to be legal, so there was conflict between enforcers. The district court stated that…
