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By Sarena Straus, Esq.

Hypothetical Number 2A few weeks ago, I posted a couple of hypotheticals regarding ethical dilemmas often faced by prosecutors. One regarded informing a defense attorney that the only witness in a one witness case had died and after posting a few comments from others, I weighed in. The other hypothetical (link here) asks whether it is appropriate for a prosecutor to use a ruse to get information from a suspect as police officers often do. In my opinion, it?s not, and that opinion seems to be shared by most of the people that posted comments related to this hypothetical. As one reader (Joe) posted, ?I think that a prosecutor's role is very different from a police officer's. The police officer is trying to close the case, the prosecutor is trying to seek justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prosecutor Postscript on April 20, 2007 (boomark / email).