Disqualifying a prosecutor's office
Guam v. Ybanez
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Guam says its Attorney General’s Office has exclusive authority over public prosecutions, including cases against public officials.
- Who it affects
- The order did not decide whether Guam’s Attorney General’s Office may be disqualified as a whole from public prosecutions.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Guam asks whether constitutional rules against disqualifying an entire prosecutor’s office should also apply in territorial and state courts.
Guam says its Attorney General’s Office has exclusive authority over public prosecutions, including cases against public officials.
Question presented
Whether settled United States constitutional jurisprudence disfavoring the summary disqualification of an entire Attorney General office empowered with exclusive or concurrent public prosecution authority should be extended to state and territorial courts to avoid unconstitutional dismissals of otherwise sound criminal trials and appeals?
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