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Connick v. Thompson, No. 09-571 (U.S. Supreme Court) (563 U.S. 51; 131 S.Ct. 1350) (March 29, 2011) (Justice Thomas)

Loaded on April 4, 2011 published in Punch and Jurists April 04, 2011
Filed under: Prosecutorial Immunity, Punch And Jurists.

In a ruling that one commentator described as “one of the meanest Supreme Court decisions ever,” a sharply divided Supreme Court threw out a $14 million jury award in favor of John Thompson, a former death row inmate in Louisiana, who was freed after prosecutorial misconduct came to light. (See, ...

 

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