What is the prosecution team?
The prosecution team. Members of the prosecution team include federal, state, and local law enforcement officers and other government officials participating in the investigation and prosecution of the criminal case against the defendant.
What are Giglio issues?
A Giglio or Brady list is a list compiled usually by a prosecutor’s office or a police department containing the names and details of law enforcement officers who have had sustained incidents of untruthfulness, criminal convictions, candor issues, or some other type of issue placing their credibility into question.
Should discovery in criminal cases be broader?
Broad and open discovery, by allow- ing greater access to the facts of the case, dramatically increases the reliability of outcomes in criminal cases, resulting in greater public confidence in the criminal justice system and enhanced public safety.
Is impeachment evidence exculpatory?
(Impeachment evidence, when it comes to criminal trials, refers to prior acts or statements that would affect a witness’s credibility.) In fact, prosecutors who withhold exculpatory evidence could find themselves facing criminal charges.
Who do prosecutors work for?
Prosecutors’ offices exist at the federal, state, and local level; at the local or state level, prosecutors work in District Attorneys’ (or State’s Attorneys’) Offices and Attorney Generals’ Offices; at the federal level, prosecutors work for the U.S. Department of Justice (including U.S. Attorney’s Offices).
What qualifies as Giglio?
A Giglio letter is a document written by a prosecutor when he or she finds out about a law enforcement officer who may not be credible on the stand. With this documented lack of credibility, the law enforcement officer is very unlikely to be used as a witness in a trial.
What Brady needs?
The Brady Rule, named after Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requires prosecutors to disclose materially exculpatory evidence in the government’s possession to the defense.
What is a Giglio letter?