Ryan v. State

Aside from the pleaded acts of prosecutorial misconduct to which the majority confines itself, claimant’s allegations of aggrievement, not without support in the record, may also be said to spell out a charge that the accusations which were made against him not only were baseless but hardly free from political motivation. But, assuming these conflicted with the Code of Professional Responsibility (DR7-103; EC7-14; see, also, EC7-13) or could be thought to justify action to vindicate the victim’s reputation (cf. United States v Modica, 663 F2d *5631173, 1185), it seems settled that these too…