Government
Mar. 14, 2012
Prosecutorial misconduct matters only for certain cases
Government lawyers tend to get a free pass when they misbehave, unless the victim has special clout.
Gideon Kanner
Professor of Law Emeritus, Loyola Law School
USC Law School
A clutch of U.S. senators have their knickers in a twist over prosecutorial misconduct in the trial of the late Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, who was convicted a few years ago on the basis of improper evidence, and whose conviction was later vacated for that reason. Evidently, six federal prosecutors withheld from Stevens' defense "less-incriminating statements from witnesses and other evidence." In the ensuing four-year investigation of this caper, which cost the taxpayers $1.8 million, a...
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