Posted on 12/18/2006 4:44:22 PM PST by abb
his is not the way the system is supposed to operate. Prosecutors are supposed to be out for justice, not blood; committed to the truth, at all costs, not winning, without more.
Prosecutors aren’t just morally obliged but legally required to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense.
Prosecutors aren’t just one side in a battle.
You can’t come across the smoking gun covered with fingerprints on it – come across it because you have the power of the state to collect all the evidence – and then decide to ignore it because they don’t match the fingerprints of the guy you’re prosecuting for the crime. You certainly can’t file the report from the lab for your eyes only.
You have to tell the defendant that the smoking gun has someone else’s prints on it. He has a right to know that, and the prosecutor has a duty to tell him.
There is a reason that the rules are such. The prosecutor represents the people. The people’s goal is winning, which doesn’t have to mean a perfect conviction rate.
The goal is supposed to be to convict the guy who did it, not frame the guy you’ve got.
Somebody should tell that to Mike Nifong. Or to the judge who is in a position to do something about who prosecutes the Duke lacrosse players charged with rape.
What is going on in the prosecutors’ office in Durham North Carolina is disturbing in ways that go beyond the ugly allegations that started this case.
The District Attorney has clearly lost sight of his mission, and with it the last remnants of any ethical compass. The case has been characterized, since the outset, by a clear failure to follow the office’s own procedures and practices.
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Link to new thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756922/posts
The only interest you seem to have in this case is writing sullen and useless quips to posters. Your sole contribution so far has been a collection of one or two-line sarcastic, juvenile retorts from left field to people just expressing their ideas and opinions. You are a typical obnoxious loser. Do yourself and the rest of us a big favor and go away.
"...You are a typical obnoxious loser..."
Oops, I believe I may have inadvertenly touched a nerve.
I will now repeat something from an earlier post, just for you, since it is obvious that you either missed it or were able neither to grasp nor retain it: Some of us here actually have a CONNECTION to this situation, which by the way, is more information about myself than I care to share with you.
FYI, you can't spell loser without LE.
You know, by now anyone who still has that question in their mind is just plain stupid.
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