Posted on 04/09/2009 7:12:55 AM PDT by the Real fifi
In recent years service as a successful crusading prosecutor has been a pathway to political success (See Giuliani and Spitzer, for example) and high paying positions in the private sector. At the same time, to me anyway, there was been an increasingly suspicious overreaching by too many prosecutors. The courts, bar associations and the Department of Justice are not exercising sufficient supervision of their work, for us to feel comfortable with the enormous power they wield
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Thank you very much. Clarice
That is a really excellent article, thank you again for flagging it.
What I found most disturbing in the report (as I've seen in a few cases):
The Stevens case demonstrates that a culture has developed in which prosecutorial abuse of power occurs-even in the most powerful and well-funded office in the nation. This policy review reveals that this culture, and the type of misconduct in the stevens case, is prominent in jurisdictions all over the country. (p.14)
Yes—I’m afraid it is. It is very hard for people who want to win a case to be solely responsible for determining what is exculpatory evidence and to turn it over to the defense as the authors of this study note.
I’ve saved it because most readers have not the same interest in all this legal detail but it might be useful in an article about a specific case or ruling..
Yep — it also had some nice quotes at the ending.
I may add some to my collection on my profile page.
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