We need just the opposite. We need them serving the sentences of anyone they wrongly convict. I guess most Americans need a reminder of the original intent of prosecutors', and indictments.
“The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.” ~ Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
“If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his case, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people he thinks he should get, rather than cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm -- in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.” ~ Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
“Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.” ~ William J. Campbell (1905-1988) United States federal judge, longest serving Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Newsweek, 22 August 1977
“[The] purpose of a jury is to . . . make available the common sense judgment of the community as a hedge against the overzealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps over conditioned or biased response of a judge.” ~ U.S. Supreme Court
Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522, 530 (1975)
Make them serve the sentences. Does that mean Kamela would have to serve about a million years for all of the poor people she wrongly convicted, and kept in prison past their terms?
We need a law that prosecutors are responsible for the crimes committed by people they release.
We need just the opposite. We need them serving the sentences of anyone they wrongly convict. I guess most Americans need a reminder of the original intent of prosecutors', and indictments.
“The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.” ~ Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
“If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his case, it follows that he can choose his defendants. Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people he thinks he should get, rather than cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. It is in this realm -- in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.” ~ Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
“Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.” ~ William J. Campbell (1905-1988) United States federal judge, longest serving Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Newsweek, 22 August 1977
“[The] purpose of a jury is to . . . make available the common sense judgment of the community as a hedge against the overzealous or mistaken prosecutor and in preference to the professional or perhaps over conditioned or biased response of a judge.” ~ U.S. Supreme Court Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522, 530 (1975)
Make them serve the sentences. Does that mean Kamela would have to serve about a million years for all of the poor people she wrongly convicted, and kept in prison past their terms?
Well, in cases like that, capital punishment fits the crime of stealing the liberty and lives of those she had a duty to insure a fair trial.
Judges and parole boards