Prosecutor Harry Shorstein allegedly concealed questionable forensic test results and faced ethics complaints during Obama administration appointme...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 conviction, on the ground that the prosecution had failed to prove the scientific validity of its theory. We later learned that Harry Shorstein—who argued that appeal—had information that should have led him to know or at least suspect that the test results he had presented to the jury were at best highly questionable and at worst flat out false. Yet he never disclosed this information to the court or to the defense. We filed a complaint with the appropriate authorities, since such conduct on the part of the prosecutor raises grave ethical issues. Shorstein then filed a counter-complaint alleging—quite absurdly—that the very act of filing a complaint against him constituted misconduct. Shorstein’s tactic is only one of the ways overly aggressive prosecutors discourage lawyers from complaining about their ethical violations.°’ Nothing came of either complaint, but when President Obama was considering appointing Shorstein to become a United States Attorney in Florida, we notified the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee of Shorstein’s ethical lapses and he was passed over for the job. Dr. Sybers and his wife of __ years now live in . 57 Other tactics that I have experienced include: 187 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017274