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"Talking About Prosecutors"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this intriguing looking article by Professor Alafair Burke, which is avaiable via SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article explores the narrative that the scholarly literature on wrongful convictions uses to talk about prosecutors. In the prevailing narrative of the wrongful conviction literature, stories of bad prosecutorial decision making in the cases against Genarlow Wilson, the Jena Six, and three Duke lacrosse players are merely high-profile examples of misconduct that happens every day in America?s prosecutors? offices and courtrooms. What emerges from the current discourse on wrongful convictions is a language of fault ? fault placed on prosecutors who fail to value justice at each turn of the proceedings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).