Terra Morehead, who retired as a federal prosecutor last August, has agreed to turn over her law license as part of an agreement with a Kansas disciplinary board. As a Wyandotte County prosecutor in the 1990s, Morehead helped KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski frame an innocent man who spent 23 years in...
Terra Morehead, a longtime county and federal prosecutor who helped police frame at least one innocent man, has agreed to surrender her law license and faces disbarment.
Morehead, who became notorious for skirting legal protections for defendants, agreed to surrender her license as part of an agreement with the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys. She is awaiting disbarment from the Kansas Supreme Court, according to court filings.
Disbarment doesn't even qualify as a slap on the wrist.
This woman should rot in jail for the combined sentences of everyone she ever prosecuted.
It wasn't just the one guy they know about that she framed, she had a habit of going around legal protections for defendants and it's likely that there are many people serving much longer sentences than they deserved or sentences they never deserved at all.
I also think it can be a power trip. And they may also think that the person is just "bad" and deserves punishment for whatever other crimes (real or imagined).
It's like that prosecutor in Indiana that held two trials and put two different men in jail for the same crime (it was a crime that only one person could commit). Like, you know only one person could do it. So you either got the right one or not.
Did that prosecutor care? No, they got two wins under their record.
Dust our hands off and leave it at her handing over her license so we dont have to deal with difficult things like letting innocent people filthy criminals out of jail?
“If white people bore the brunt of prosecutorial misconduct, we’d fix this problem in a minute,” Mystal added. “But because the victims of injustice are disproportionately black and poor, we just don’t care.”
That is the crux of the problem. There are a fuckload of racists in government.
For the suit you need evidence, but prosecutors have privilege for their whole case, so technically the inner workings are not discoverable. Now maybe the new judge / prosecutor can waive that on behalf of the government (I straight up don't know if that's possible), but either way, this is gonna get ridiculously complicated.