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Sunday, January 5, 2014

Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct (reminds me of the Lane Jensen case)

One has to wonder about John Copic vs Lane Jensen
In the justice system, prosecutors have the power to decide what criminal charges to bring, and since 97 percent of cases are resolved without a trial, those decisions are almost always the most important factor in the outcome. That is why it is so important for prosecutors to play fair, not just to win.

 . According to the Center for Prosecutor Integrity, multiple studies over the past 50 years show that courts punished prosecutorial misconduct in less than 2 percent of cases where it occurred. And that rarely amounted to more than a slap on the wrist, such as making the prosecutor pay for the cost of the disciplinary hearing.

Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct - NYTimes.com

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mike Nyfung duke lacross. A lady who happed to be black accused a bunch of White lacrosse players of rape well we know how that turned out. all lies and Nyfung was disbarred and spent a day in jail. I hope the prosecutor in Lanes case ends up the same way as Mike Nyfung

Anonymous said...

What is the relevance in pointing out the races in the lacrosse case? How do the races pertain to that case or Lane's case?

Al M said...

The point of this post is to illustrate how John Copic has the tremendous power that he does. He has Lane up on 30 instances of so called 'telephonic harassment' with the potential of 15 years in prison.

That is complete prosecutororial abuse

Anonymous said...

Lane is quite the Aaron Swartz of the transit world. Here's hoping he's made of sterner stuff and John Copic is no Carmen Ortiz.