A few items ago I blogged about prosecutorial misconduct sinking convictions as angry judges freed, or ordered new trials for, the defendants involved.  Well, what’s been sunk so far are rowboats compared to this: In the Costa Concordia of reversals a federal judge has ordered new trials for the New Orleans cops implicated in covering up the police massacre of unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  The judge called the prosecutors conduct “grotesque,” much as the headline in the accompanying article characterizes the police shootings as “notorious.”  What a day for the criminal justice system.