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Ohio Brady violation: Six month suspension?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Ohio is considering whether to suspend a former prosecutor's license for six months for a Brady violation. See Columbus Dispatch: Justices to rule on evidence sharing / Former assistant prosecutor could lose license over rape-case conduct: A former Logan County assistant prosecutor is fighting to keep her law license after the Ohio Supreme Court's disciplinary counsel determined that she withheld evidence from the defense in a rape case. A panel of the court's Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline had recommended that Kim Kellogg-Martin's license be suspended for six months, but that the suspension be stayed. Then, earlier this month, the court's full board and the disciplinary counsel went against that recommendation. The counsel ruled instead that Kellogg-Martin should lose her license for six months.continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on September 14, 2008 (boomark / email).