exculpatory

For one, they are obligated to investigate any exonerating evidence and circumstances, and any exculpatory circumstances.

Similarly, in the aftermath of the Second World War there was a large number of exculpatory memoirs by German generals.

One of Nacchio's complaints was that he wasn't allowed to disclose certain exculpatory facts in public.

Law enforcement revealing true exculpatory information during cross-examination isn't screwing up -- like all witnesses, their duty is to tell the truth.

The grand looks at the evidence to see if the prosecution has enough to go forward, so normally no exculpatory evidence is presented (in fact the defendant is typically not even there).

What it fails to do is take into account any exculpatory evidence or claims.

As extreme examples, presenting fabricated evidence or withholding exculpatory evidence would clearly be unacceptable even if laws were changed to allow it.

I am opposed to it because exculpatory evidence available to the NSA may be concealed at their discretion.

Since the defendant has no constitutional right to discover any of the prosecution's evidence (unless it is exculpatory within the meaning of Brady v.

It wouldn't be right if prosecutors were able to withhold exculpatory evidence.

Realistically, this would only bring the systematic destruction of any exculpatory evidence.

Prosecutors are required to present potentially exculpatory evidence, but they have never been required to present all the data they generate in their investigations.

"Paying for basic service protections that we should have anticipated" sounds far less exculpatory however.

Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice."(1) Fortunately (heh), we've carefully defined obstruction of justice in the USA so that it doesn't seem to apply to prosecutors who stare right at exculpatory evidence and then try to hide it to pervert justice anyway.