Letters,
Government,
Criminal
Mar. 5, 2015
'Epidemic' in need of an intervention
The truth is not that it's good there's so little prosecutorial misconduct; the truth is that it's bad there's any.
Jeffrey A. Aaron
Public Defender
Mendocino County Public Defender's Office
3801 University Ave Ste 700
Riverside , CA 92501
Phone: (951) 276-6346
Fax: (951) 276-6368
Email: Jeffrey_Aaron@fd.org
Rutgers Univ SOL; Camden NJ
Jeffrey is a certified specialist in criminal law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
When federal appellate judges, not often known for their anarchist sympathies and pro-defense biases, describe prosecutorial misconduct as "epidemic," people naturally take notice. When major newspapers like the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times publish editorials about the subject, as they have recently done, the issue seems critical.
When prosecutors will commit misconduct in a case like that of Ted Stevens, it's hard to argue there is not a feeling of impunity among gov...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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