“Federal prosecutors are supposed to seek justice, not merely score convictions. But a USA TODAY investigation found that prosecutors repeatedly have violated that duty in courtrooms across the nation. The abuses have put innocent people in prison, set guilty people free and cost taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees and sanctions.”
A USAToday article (Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/22/20100922prosecutor-law-abuse-probe.html#ixzz10NZnQHQg) exposing 201 cases of prosecutorial abuse expresses the belief that “Such abuses, intentional or not, doubtless infect no more than a small fraction of the tens of thousands of criminal cases filed in the nation’s federal courts each year.”
Right. And who do they think taught these cretins to do it this way?
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