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A Culture of Prosecutorial Misconduct
Loaded on April 15, 2004
by Peter Schmidt
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2004, page 32
Review by Peter Schmidt
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Reviews.
Location:
United States of America.
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a non-profit, investigative journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., has recently published a major study on prosecutorial misconduct in America. The lengthy, empirical study, entitled Harmful Error: Investigating America's Local Prosecutors, which is available online, contains some revealing findings and ...
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