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Letter to the Editor

Oct. 20, 2010

In Defense of the Messenger

Kathleen Ridolfi and Maurice Possley respond to, 'Misconduct Goes Unpunished.'

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

On Oct. 5, the Daily Journal published an article, "Misconduct Goes Unpunished," about the release of a study by the Northern California Innocence Project entitled "Preventable Error: A Report on Prosecutorial Misconduct in California 1992-2009."

In the article, San Mateo County District Attorney James Fox criticized the study as being inaccurate about the five San Mateo cases of harmful error c...

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