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Mar. 31, 2012
Prosecutors: with great power comes great responsibility
Prosecutors walk a fine line between locking up criminals and ensuring that defendants' rights are not violated. By Maurice Possley
John Thompson was sentenced to death in Louisiana. Ted Stevens was convicted and lost his seat in the U.S. Senate in Alaska. Michael Wayne Hash was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering a woman at age 15 in Virginia.
These men are among scores of the defendants denied fair trials in U.S. courtrooms because of prosecutorial misconduct. Found guilty by juries, their convictions were overturned by...
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