Registry Fields
The Registry of Prosecutorial Misconduct includes the following fields and response options:
- Case number
- Citation
- Crime
- Assault
- Drug crime
- Murder
- Sex crime
- Violent, other
- Non-violent, other
- State where crime was committed
- Prosecutor first and last name
- Federal jurisdiction:
- Yes
- No (state-level jurisdiction)
- Year of trial
- Body making finding of prosecutorial misconduct
- Trial court
- Appeals court
- Supreme court
- Disciplinary body
- Opinion – summary of finding
- Year of finding
- Misconduct type*
- PT: Pre-trial
- TR: Trial
- GEN: General
- Conviction/Sentence (C/S) Effect:
- Bar evidence
- Dismissal
- New sentencing/hearing
- New trial
- No effect
- Partial dismissal
- Partial reversal of conviction
- Pre-trial dismissal
- Remand for retrial
- Remand for new trial
- Removal of prosecutor
- Reversal of conviction
- Vacate conviction
- Voluntary withdrawal of charges
- Prosecutor Misconduct Reported: Whether or not the misconduct was reported to a legal disciplinary body
- Yes
- No
- Unknown
- Sanctions: Whether or not sanctions were imposed
- Yes
- No
- Unknown
- Type of sanctions:
- Continuing legal education
- Suspension
- Disbarment
- Other
- Date Published: Date when the case was initially published (or updated) in the Registry — useful to locate cases that have been recently added or updated
* Type of Misconduct:
| LISTING | EXPLANATION |
| PT: Brady | Pre-trial: Brady violation |
| PT: Charging | Charging wo probable case/Overcharging |
| PT: Evidence | Evidence falsification/Witness tampering/Subornation of perjury/Improper elicitation of evidence/Failure to enforce perjury |
| PT: Perjury | Perjury offenses – failure to enforce |
| PT: Plea | Plea Bargain Offense |
| PT: Other | Pre-Trial — Other |
| TR: Impugning | Trial: Impugning the defense attorney or others |
| TR: Inadmissible | Inadmissible or false evidence/Arguing facts not in evidence/Lack of candor to court/Perjury |
| TR: Inflammatory | Inflammatory statements/Witness harassment |
| TR: Mischaracterizing | Mischaracterizing evidence |
| TR: Misstating | Misstating the law/Shifting burden of proof |
| TR: Vouching | Vouching |
| TR: Other | Trial – Other |
| GEN: Extrajudicial | General: Extrajudicial statements, e.g., inappropriate statements to the press |
| GEN: Supervision | Inadequate supervision |
| GEN: Other | General – Other |
| Unknown | Unknown |
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