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October 25, 2024
Fair and Just Prosecution, Prosecutors Alliance of CA, and Eight Former California Prosecutors Urge CA Appeals Court to Dismiss Baseless Case Against Diana Teran
Today, Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) and the Prosecutors Alliance of California, along with a coalition of eight former District Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys in California, urged a California appeals court to dismiss the case against Diana Teran, who has been charged with sharing confidential police misconduct records that are in fact publicly accessible documents. In an amicus brief filed in the California Second District Court of Appeal, the signatories argue that the case brought by the California Attorney General is “astonishingly weak” and that Ms. Teran was simply fulfilling her legal obligations as a prosecutor to maintain a Brady database of law enforcement misconduct.
October 17, 2024
New Report: Big Oil, Fossil Fuel CEOs, Could Face Prosecution for Reckless Endangerment
Fair and Just Prosecution announced the publication of a new prosecution memo co-authored by consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen on the criminal legal liability major fossil fuel companies and their executives could face under New York State’s reckless endangerment law.
October 8, 2024
FJP Calls on TN Supreme Court to Restore Prosecutors’ Authority in Death Penalty Post-Conviction Cases
FJP’s Acting Co-Executive Director Amy Fettig issued a statement in response to the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision in Larry McKay v. State of Tennessee. In its decision, the Court of Criminal Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that the state legislature violated the state constitution by taking away local elected prosecutors’ well-established authority to handle post-conviction proceedings in death penalty cases, interfering with their discretion to correct wrongful convictions in these life-or-death cases.
October 7, 2024
41 Current and Former Criminal Justice Leaders File Amicus Brief Urging Pennsylvania Supreme Court to Protect Prosecutors’ Authority to Correct Past Errors
A group of 41 criminal justice leaders, including current and former elected prosecutors and state attorneys general, and former U.S. attorneys and Department of Justice officials, have filed an amicus brief with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Commonwealth v. Lavar Brown. In this case, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office conceded that Mr. Brown’s conviction was tainted by a significant constitutional error, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is considering how courts should treat those concessions of error.
September 23, 2024
Co-Executive Directors Amy Fettig and Robin Olsen to Lead FJP Following Departure of Founder & Executive Director Miriam Krinsky
Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) today announced its first leadership transition since the organization’s inception eight years ago. Founder and former Executive Director, Miriam Krinsky, will be stepping away from the organization to spend more time with her family, including her two young grandchildren. Under Miriam’s visionary leadership, FJP has evolved from a small coalition of just 14 elected prosecutors in 2017 to one of the nation’s leading criminal justice reform organizations, now boasting a nationwide network of over 60 reform-minded prosecutors.