If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself."
THE FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, An Address by ROBERT H. JACKSON, Attorney General of the United States, Delivered at The Second Annual Conference of United States Attorneys, April 1, 1940
Great quote. Thanks for posting it.
We can’t say we weren’t warned.
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““Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.””
- Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin’s secret police
(in short)
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Excellent find.
The comment by Robert Jackson really puts the role of the prosecutor in perspective.
Yet Comey is NOT a prosecutor, he was the top investigator. He was outside of his authority to decide that Hillary should not be prosecuted, the decision should have been with the DOJ. Which goes to the obvious...why didn’t he leave it at their feet? Which also goes to the obvious, a politicized DOJ, under Obama, would have the hot potato...during an election no less. They wanted nothing to do with it. They know their own crimes so Hillary HAD to win.
Hillary is getting away with crimes because those above her were guilty of higher crimes. Yet how many question anything about Obama? He is literally in the middle of everything and is never questioned.
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Post of the Month (IMO).