You’ve read the stories of exonerees. You’ve seen the crime shows. Now the question becomes: What do you really know about prosecutorial misconduct?
Americans put their trust in prosecutors to seek justice–not convictions–in courtrooms across the country. And as our cases have shown again and again, too often the system doesn’t work and it doesn’t hold prosecutors accountable for their misdeeds. This isn’t a few bad apples, it’s a broken system.
You know prosecutorial misconduct is a problem, but do you know why? And do you know how to fix it?
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