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Category Archives: prosecutor misconduct
What the State Suppressed about Eric Horn
Suppressed police records relating to Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case reveal much about Eric Horn (brother of the victim, Amber Garrett). The records show that two weeks before Amber disappeared, Horn said that he hated his sister and wished she was dead;* … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Eric Horn, Hamilton County, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Eric Horn, February 2017, Hamilton County, Harrison Police Department, hypnosis, impeached testimony, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, jurors, Ohio, polygraph, prosecutorial misconduct, suppressed evidence, USA
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The Root of Unfairness
Joe Deters, Ohio’s Hamilton County lead prosecutor, is no stranger to unfairness in death penalty cases. In one of his cases, that of Jeffrey Wogenstahl, the misconduct of his own team of prosecutors has been described by Judge Moore as … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Hamilton County, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, judges, Ohio, prosecutor misconduct, Rayshawn Johnson, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged AEDPA, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, capital punishment, death penalty, December 2015, elected judges, Hamilton County, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, Judge Judith French, judges, Justice Breyer, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Sotomayor, Justice William O'Neill, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, OTSE, prosecutor misconduct, Rayshawn Johnson, USA
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Prosecutors: Many Bad Apples
The Daily Beast’s series of articles on prosecutors this summer was alarming. This summary gives a taste of the content: “American prosecutors are powerful officials. They have the power to deprive people of their liberty, destroy their reputations, and even take … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, prosecutors, USA
Tagged capital punishment, convictions, death penalty, election, FBI hair testimony, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, Judge Alex Kozinski, judiciary, Mark Piepmeier, October 2015, Ohio, perjury, prosecutor immunity, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, prosecutors, Rick Gibbons, USA, wrongful convictions
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Snitch Testimony, and the Magical Appearance of Hair
At Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s trial, testimony was given by a so-called ‘jailhouse snitch’, Bruce Wheeler, an informant who said he had heard Jeff confess to the murder of 10-year-old Amber Garrett. Why should we worry about this? Because, as Radley Balko … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death row, FBI flawed forensics, jailhouse informants, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, snitch testimony, USA
Tagged 2015, Amber Garrett, capital punishment, Chris Fabricant Innocence Project, Clifford Zimmerman, death penalty, death row, FBI flawed forensics, jailhouse informants, jailhouse snitches, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, May 2015, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Radley Balko, USA, wrongful convictions
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