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438. Resisting reality

By Joel Jacobsen

Recently I completed a series of all-day training sessions for law enforcement in outlying areas of New Mexico, a state with more than its share of outlying areas.  My fellow-instructor was a retired officer, and it was interesting to hear the assembled officers, from a variety of forces, complain about prosecutors and their reluctance to take cases to court. For the last 90 minutes of the day, when everyone was impatient and tired and hot and ready to go, I talked to them about preparing a case for the prosecution.  I'd begin by telling them that everything they've been saying about prosecutors, prosecutors say about them.  That would get a couple uneasy chuckles.  And then I'd try to explain the lack of communication. The key point I wanted to get across is that when prosecutors use the term "evidence," they don't mean the same thing cops mean...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).