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Perspective

Dec. 9, 2014

LETTER: Mixed feelings about prosecutorial discretion

I read with great interest Edward Loya Jr.'s Dec. 2 column "An occasion to discuss prosecutorial discretion." By Bernard J. Rosen

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

I read with great interest Edward Loya Jr.'s Dec. 2 column "An occasion to discuss prosecutorial discretion."

It has been said both that "A grand jury ... sits as the great inquest between the State and the citizen, to make accusations only upon sufficient evidence of guilt, and to protect the citizen against unfounded accusation, whether from the government, from partisan passion, or private malice." Johnson v. Super...

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