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.

  • @ganksy
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    272 months ago

    Hopefully she can at least be personally sued in civil court

    • @stoly
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      62 months ago

      Qualified immunity applies to prosecutors just like the police. This can only happen if there’s an existing case on the record similar to this one.

      • @hoshikarakitaridia
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        42 months ago

        It gets even more complicated.

        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.