Prosecutors are the ones who bring perjury charges, but never to against the police officer whose perjury helped them win the case.
A judge who hands down a bad judgement is usually the same one who hears the request for a new trial if its made at the state level. The appeal is initiated by filing a petition of habeas corpus in the very same court you were sentenced in. You might think an appeal would require a different judge review a case, but not if it is a habeas corpus petition, in which the grounds for filing are ineffective assistance of counsel, meaning the defense lawyer failed to do obvious and reasonable things to defend his client.
The Attorney General's office investigates claims that a defense attorney was ineffective in defending their client. For that reason the Habeas Corpus petitions filed to request a new trial are rarely granted, yet the going rate attorneys charge to file one is $10,000. No oversight group exists to ensures that judges even read the petitions, and sometimes they just sit on the docket for years while an innocent person remains incarcerated.
Judges and attorneys are often involved in cases where they should have recused themselves. In my daughter's case, at the bond hearing the circuit judge admitted two of the people burglarized were his friends, he offered to recuse himself but the defense attorney, without asking Katie, declined. At the hearing that ensued, this judge denied bond and put Katie in jail for two weeks to provide other jurisdictions time to bring charges. There is no legal basis to hold a person in jail to see if someone wants to bring charges in the future.
A judge who hands down a bad judgement is usually the same one who hears the request for a new trial if its made at the state level. The appeal is initiated by filing a petition of habeas corpus in the very same court you were sentenced in. You might think an appeal would require a different judge review a case, but not if it is a habeas corpus petition, in which the grounds for filing are ineffective assistance of counsel, meaning the defense lawyer failed to do obvious and reasonable things to defend his client.
The Attorney General's office investigates claims that a defense attorney was ineffective in defending their client. For that reason the Habeas Corpus petitions filed to request a new trial are rarely granted, yet the going rate attorneys charge to file one is $10,000. No oversight group exists to ensures that judges even read the petitions, and sometimes they just sit on the docket for years while an innocent person remains incarcerated.
Judges and attorneys are often involved in cases where they should have recused themselves. In my daughter's case, at the bond hearing the circuit judge admitted two of the people burglarized were his friends, he offered to recuse himself but the defense attorney, without asking Katie, declined. At the hearing that ensued, this judge denied bond and put Katie in jail for two weeks to provide other jurisdictions time to bring charges. There is no legal basis to hold a person in jail to see if someone wants to bring charges in the future.