Institute for Justice: Entire Fifth Circuit to Decide Whether Texas Woman Can Sue Prosecutor Who Secretly Worked for Judge Presiding Over Her Case
May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 15 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release on May 14, 2024:
Tomorrow, 18 judges of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will convene to decide whether Erma Wilson is entitled to her day in court--or whether a prosecutor who spent nearly two decades secretly working as a law clerk for the same judges who decided the cases he prosecuted will escape accountability.
The case matters for civil-rights plaintiffs across the c . . .
Tomorrow, 18 judges of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will convene to decide whether Erma Wilson is entitled to her day in court--or whether a prosecutor who spent nearly two decades secretly working as a law clerk for the same judges who decided the cases he prosecuted will escape accountability.
The case matters for civil-rights plaintiffs across the c . . .