The Botched Cliven Bundy Case Was Just the Latest Example of Prosecutorial Misconduct in Las Vegas

Summary: When a federal judge dismissed the indictment against cattle rancher Cliven Bundy earlier this year due to what she described as “outrageous” misconduct by Nevada prosecutors, she repeatedly referred to similar wrongdoing in a case from a decade earlier. In that older case, an appeals court delivered an incredibly rare ruling: The prosecutorial misconduct was so severethe court threw out dozens of criminal charges and barred the government from filing new ones.