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Criminal

Jun. 18, 2016

Letter to the editor: Reports of prosecutorial misconduct 'epidemic' are greatly exaggerated

I read with interest Stephen Cooper's recent opinion piece on the New York Times editorial about prosecutorial misconduct, "NYT's fix for misconduct is a bit naïve" (June 15). By Marc Debbaudt

I read with interest Stephen Cooper's recent opinion piece on the New York Times editorial about prosecutorial misconduct, "NYT's fix for misconduct is a bit naïve" (June 15). My opinion in a nutshell is that prosecutorial misconduct is extremely rare. Sure, it is bad and should not be tolerated at all. However, it is little more than a statistical aberration and anomaly that amounts to significantly less than a fraction of a percent of the cases that ...

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