Entries tagged with “Paul Browning”
Issues
Jun 02, 2020
State Courts in Nevada, Pennsylvania Rule Prosecutorial Misconduct Bars Retrial, Exonerating Paul Browning and Kareem Johnson
State appeal courts in Nevada and Pennsylvania have barred the retrial of two former death-row prisoners as a result of prosecutorial misconduct, paving the way for…
Issues
Sep 06, 2019
Nevada Man Convicted by Prosecutorial Misconduct and ‘Woefully Inadequate’ Defense Counsel Released After 33 Years on Death Row
Thirty-three years after a trial a federal appeals court described as“a mixture of disturbing prosecutorial misconduct and woefully inadequate assistance of counsel,” a Las Vegas trial court freed Paul Browning (pictured) from Nevada’s death row. On August 21, 2019, Clark County District Judge Douglas Herndon — who in March had dismissed murder and related charges against Browning — ordered state…