Breaking the Rules. Steve Weinberg.
by Weinberg, Steve; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 76Institutions. Publisher: Center for Public Integrity, 2003ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Criminal justice -- Administration of | Evidence -- Criminal | Exculpatory evidence | Judicial error | Misconduct in office | Prosecution | Public prosecutorsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "When Larry Johnson walked out of a Missouri prison during the summer of 2002, exonerated by DNA testing from a wrongful rape conviction after avowing his innocence for 18 years, St. Louis legal community insiders nodded knowingly as word trickled out who had led the prosecution back in 1984--Nels C. Moss Jr. Moss, assistant circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis and later a trial prosecutor in neighboring St. Charles County, earned a well-deserved reputation as an aggressive, effective trial prosecutor. During his 33 years of trying cases for the people, however, he simultaneously was a recidivist breaker of the rules by which prosecutors are supposed to operate." (CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY) This article reveals that "local prosecutors in many of the 2,341 jurisdictions across the nation have stretched, bent or broken rules while convicting defendants."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Breaking the Rules, June 26, 2003; pp. n.p..
"When Larry Johnson walked out of a Missouri prison during the summer of 2002, exonerated by DNA testing from a wrongful rape conviction after avowing his innocence for 18 years, St. Louis legal community insiders nodded knowingly as word trickled out who had led the prosecution back in 1984--Nels C. Moss Jr. Moss, assistant circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis and later a trial prosecutor in neighboring St. Charles County, earned a well-deserved reputation as an aggressive, effective trial prosecutor. During his 33 years of trying cases for the people, however, he simultaneously was a recidivist breaker of the rules by which prosecutors are supposed to operate." (CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY) This article reveals that "local prosecutors in many of the 2,341 jurisdictions across the nation have stretched, bent or broken rules while convicting defendants."
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