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Aug. 9, 2015<\/p>\nAug. 9, 2015<\/p>\n
\u201cSuppressing evidence<\/a>, coddling informants, even\u00a0outright lying<\/a>\u00a0are some of the instances of prosecutorial misconduct that sent away nearly half the 1,621 people convicted for crimes they didn\u2019t commit since 1989, according to the University of Michigan Law School\u2019s\u00a0National Registry of Exonerations<\/a>. These are only the cases we know about, surely only a small fraction of the wrongly convicted….<\/p>\n \u201cIn a 2011 report on 707 such cases, only six prosecutors (none in \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day-care cases) were disciplined. Almost all still have their licenses, and are still practicing law….<\/p>\n \u201cProsecutors are granted immunity for most kinds of misconduct. It\u2019s easy to see the reasons for this policy: otherwise, every well-heeled convict would sue, clogging the system and making it impossible for prosecutors to do their jobs. At the same time, that immunity is so absolute that prosecutors simply get off scot-free, even when misconduct is established. Even worse, most states lack any meaningful oversight of prosecutors: no commissions, no review boards, nothing.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerica is the only country in which many prosecutors are elected…. The disciplinary commission that sanctioned\u00a0Mike Nifong<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 prosecutor of the Duke lacrosse team on false rape charges \u2013 noted his upcoming primary election as a motivating factor for his misconduct. The pressure to produce wins has led to a \u2018win-at-all-costs\u2019 mentality in some offices, especially when voters reward such behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 From \u201c<\/em>It\u2019s Not Just Bad Cops: Prosecutors Run Wild<\/em><\/a>\u201d by Jay Michaelson at the Daily Beast (Aug. 8)<\/em><\/p>\n For whatever reason, voters in the First Judicial District declined to \u201creward such behavior\u201d by Little Rascals prosecutors H. P. Williams Jr. and Nancy Lamb. District Attorney Williams\u00a0failed to win re-election<\/a>\u00a0in 1994, and Lamb\u00a0lost her bid for DA<\/a>\u00a0in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aug. 9, 2015 \u201cSuppressing evidence, coddling informants, even\u00a0outright lying\u00a0are some of the instances of prosecutorial misconduct that sent away nearly half the 1,621 people convicted for crimes they didn\u2019t commit since 1989, according to the University of Michigan Law School\u2019s\u00a0National Registry of Exonerations. These are only the cases we know about, surely only a small […]<\/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-1477","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\/1477","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=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}