Ted Stevens conviction thrown out..
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:47:35 -0400, BAR wrote:
When the prosecutors withhold evidence you can only conclude that the
either the prosecutors are idiots or that they were afraid the withheld
evidence would have sunk their case.
Prosecutors' job is to seek the truth, not to gain a conviction.
Exactly right.
I've always thought that if an innocent man went to jail because of a
prosecutor's misconduct, the prosecutor should be jailed for as long as
the innocent person was. That would cut down on this type of crap.
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