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In jurisprudence, selective prosecution is a procedural defense in which defendants argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law because the criminal justice system discriminated against them by choosing to prosecute. In claims of selective prosecution, defendants essentially argue that it is irrelevant whether they ...
Selective enforcement has become a topic of great discussion in the illegal immigration debate. The 2011 "Morton Memo" [7] laid out enforcement priorities for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and was intended to channel limited resources into prioritized pursuit of cases involving criminals and felons. It was interpreted as the ...
Selective prosecution. McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987) United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456 (1996) Racial discrimination in the jury pool and venire
Chutkan found that Trump failed to provide evidence for either prong of the two-part test to prove selective prosecution – that he was singled out for prosecution or that the case was motivated ...
The equal protection clauses has at least three applications relevant to criminal proceedings: a prohibition on selective prosecution on invidious bases, a requirement that jury pools and venires represent a "fair cross section" of the community, and a prohibition on the discriminatory use of jury peremptory challenges. Selective prosecution
The pardon’s language, which was posted online along with the 46th president’s statement, covers all offenses committed by Hunter against the US between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024 ...
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." [1] It is similar to selective prosecution. Prosecutors are bound by a set of rules ...
Brown said she’ll argue at the motion to dismiss hearing that, in addition to selective prosecution, some of Morin’s civil rights were violated. “And that nudity is not pornography,” said ...