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Sep. 29, 2017

Reckless Harvard OCDA study

The Fair Punishment Project, a group affiliated with HLS, supposedly reviewed over 150 court decisions from 2010 to 2015 involving the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. There was just one problem: The numbers are completely wrong.

Anthony J. Rackauckas

District Attorney
Office of the Orange County District Attorney

Email: trackauckas@outlook.com

Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA

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The Fair Punishment Project, a group affiliated with HLS, supposedly reviewed over 150 court decisions from 2010 to 2015 involving the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. The “study” alleged the OCDA had seven convictions reversed due to prosecutorial misconduct and 24 overall findings of prosecutorial misconduct, deeming the OCDA among the worst in the state. ...

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