{"id":1374,"date":"2015-01-31T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:49:55","slug":"are-mistaken-prosecutors-silenced-by-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"Are mistaken prosecutors silenced by shame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150131Russell.jpg\" alt=\"150131Russell\" width=\"260\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150131Russell.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150131Russell-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Jan. 31, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c \u2018You need to try to rectify whatever error you made,\u2019 says Santa Clara County, California, Special Assistant District Attorney David Angel. \u2018But it needs to really shift from this kind of highly moralistic, punitive view. Maybe it\u2019s a cause for embarrassment, but it\u2019s not a cause for shame.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cHe believes prosecutors have drawn the short straw in language, noting that defense attorneys who err are called \u2018ineffective\u2019 and judges are \u2018reversed,\u2019 while prosecutorial error alone is labeled \u2018misconduct,\u2019 with all the attendant negative connotations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAngel believes that most prosecutors are willing to admit to mistakes but that \u2018people are very hesitant to admit to something that\u2019s called \u201cmisconduct,\u201d because it makes you feel like you did something morally wrong.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/10\/21\/why_cant_law_enforcement_admit_their_mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why can\u2019t law enforcement admit their mistakes<\/a>?\u201d\u00a0by Sue Russell at Pacific Standard (via Salon, Oct. 21, 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">The concept becomes trickier, however, the longer prosecutors cling to their fallacious and costly narratives. At some point \u2013 oh, let\u2019s say 25 years later \u2013 might \u201cmistakes\u201d have toxified into \u201cmisconduct\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 31, 2015 \u201c \u2018You need to try to rectify whatever error you made,\u2019 says Santa Clara County, California, Special Assistant District Attorney David Angel. \u2018But it needs to really shift from this kind of highly moralistic, punitive view. Maybe it\u2019s a cause for embarrassment, but it\u2019s not a cause for shame.\u2019 \u201cHe believes prosecutors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}