Like Queen Elizabeth following her “annus horribilis” of 1992 (which witnessed the marital break-ups of her sons Charles and Andrew and a devastating fire in Windsor Castle), federal prosecutors can hope for a happier year after 2009, which brought highly publicized judicial findings of misconduct by prosecutors in a number of cases, as summarized in the Business Crimes Bulletin's February issue (“DOJ, Heal Thyself,” by Jim Walden and Georgia Winston).
Prosecutors, Agents and Witnesses
Because prosecutors have a responsibility not merely to win, but to ensure that the defendant has a fair and impartial trial, it is professional misconduct for a prosecutor to intimidate or improperly influence a defense witness to change his or her testimony or to refuse to testify for the defense.
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