An appeals court said a police detective’s improper comments on the stand don’t amount to prosecutorial misconduct and don’t trigger the U.S. Constitution’s double jeopardy clause.

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U.S. v. Barrera (MLW No. 61658/Case No. 09-3873 – 9 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.)

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Loose ends were tied up in 2009 in a drawn-out case involving a man who abandoned his girlfriend’s body in his car more than four years ago. The year brought a second conviction for Matthew Davis with a significantly reduced ...

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The indictments of three former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers in December 2008 raised a host of legal questions and further litigation. The officers’ indictments caused both the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and the ...

Tagged with: Bobby Lee Garrett Catherine Hanaway Chet Pleban Jennifer Joyce Leo Liston prosecutorial misconduct St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Vincent Carr

A federal judge said no prosecutorial misconduct occurred in the case against Bobby Lee Garrett, a St. Louis police officer accused of planting evidence, stealing money and dealing drugs. U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber, of the St. Louis-based federal ...

Tagged with: Bobby Lee Garrett Catherine Hanaway Chet Pleban E. Richard Webber Jennifer Joyce prosecutorial misconduct U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri

A federal judge said no prosecutorial misconduct occurred in the case against Bobby Lee Garrett, a St. Louis police officer accused of planting evidence, stealing money and dealing drugs. U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber, of the St. Louis-based federal ...

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An issue that hinged on a media interview now has parties not wanting to talk about it. A federal judge is weighing whether prosecutors acted improperly by publicly questioning convictions in cases investigated by an indicted police officer. St. Louis attorney Chet Pleban, of Pleban & Associates, filed the motion to dismiss for prosecutorial misconduct after a newspaper article quoted former U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway and current St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce as saying that more than 1,000 convictions were put in doubt because of the indictment of Pleban's client, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Bobby Lee Garrett.

Tagged with: Bobby Lee Garrett Catherine Hanaway Chet Pleban E. Richard Webber Jennifer Joyce Leo Liston prosecutorial misconduct U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri Vincent Carr