From the article..worth reading...
So I end with the not very optimistic conclusion that, for the immediate future at least, prosecutors, rather than judges, will be the real rulers of the American criminal justice system. And I ask you: is that fair?
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1292&context=nulr
Similar conclusions as Gerry Spence...Police State
Good points. This is one reason I’ve always been puzzled that conservatives have long loved the “Law & Order” TV franchise. The prosecutors each week find ways to stretch the law to bully “perps” in pleading.
I tend to agree with the article’s conclusions. As a prosecutor (either part- or full-time) for much of my 35 years in practice, I have found that waaaaayyy too many prosecutors fail to remember - or simply disregard - the ethical and legal standard that explicitly states “the job of a prosecutor is not to convict, but to ensure that justice is done”. To my shame, I kept a score sheet in my early days as an Air Force trial counsel, because that’s what we bragged about. After I spent 3 years as an Area and Circuit Defense Counsel, I was firmly of the opinion that no prosecutor should be allowed to be a Chief of Military Justice until he/she had been a defense counsel.
Colonel, USAF TJAGCR (ret)
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