"There have to be some kind of consequences"

[better-dead-than-fed]

... He was wrongly convicted not once, but twice.... He spent 18 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, 14 of them on death row.... When his attorneys finally found the evidence that cleared him -- evidence his prosecutors had known about for years -- he was weeks away from execution.

... in the end, there was no accountability....

... "Mistakes can happen. But if you don't do anything to stop them from happening again, you can't keep calling them mistakes."...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/prosecutorial-misconduct-new-orleans-louisiana_n_3529891.html?1375381108

[WM_in_MO]

"Prosecutor Immunity"

Just-us system at work again.

[tod evans]

Prosecutors are above the law as proscribed by the "Just-Us" system..

It's way past time for a justice system!

[mad cow]

Excellent,excellent article.


The 2009 Supreme Court case Pottawattamie v. McGhee shows how absurd the logic behind prosecutorial immunity can get. Prosecutors were found to have fabricated evidence to help them convict two innocent men, Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee, who between them spent more than 50 years in prison. Attorneys for the prosecutors, along with the Office of the Solicitor General and several state attorneys general, argued they should be immune from any liability. They said that while the prosecutors may have been acting as police investigators when they fabricated the evidence, the actual injury occurred only when the jury wrongly convicted Harrington and McGhee. It followed that because the prosecutors were acting as prosecutors when the injury occurred, they were still shielded by absolute immunity. Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal even argued to the court that there is no "free-standing due process right not to be framed."

Unbelievable.

Warning:Very long article but worth reading,maybe bookmark it to read later if you don't have time right now.