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Criminal

Mar. 20, 2015

Buoying Brady's burden

It doesn't take a chokehold or a gunshot for police misconduct to turn deadly. Prosecutorial concealment can be enough. By Jonathan Abel


By Jonathan Abel


It doesn't take a chokehold or a gunshot for police misconduct to turn deadly. Prosecutorial concealment can be enough.


Just ask Debra Milke. Prosecutors in Phoenix built their murder case against her on the testimony of Detective Armando Saldate Jr., but never bothered to disclose the detective's history of violating Miranda and providing false statements under oath, nor did they disclose an internal police evaluation t...

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