Government
Oct. 4, 2014
Brown vetoes bill that would have used prosecutor misconduct to help defendants
Defense attorney lobbyists won a symbolic victory this year, but lost out at the last minute when Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have used prosecutors' misconduct to help defendants.
By Paul Jones
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Defense attorney lobbyists won a symbolic victory this year, but lost out at the last minute when Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have used prosecutors' misconduct to help defendants. AB 885 by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, would have allowed judges to instruct juries that prosecutors' willful withholding of exculpatory evidence, when revealed before the end of a trial, could be considered in rendering a verdict...
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