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When prosecutors get prosecuted.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 The Bill of Rights.should apply no more nor more less to an arrested prosecutor than to anyone else. (Image from the public domain.) Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto./I am human: nothing human is alien to me - Publius Terence. So many prosecutors and cops so often sneer when I make arguments to them or to sentencing judges in the above vein. Now, the same argument is being presented by the longtime elected Wicomico County, Maryland, chief prosecutor after his arrest for drunk driving in neighboring Worcester County. Wicomico State's Attorney Davis Ruark said of his arrest from last Friday, which involved an alleged 015 blood alcohol content reading: "I am human ... We are all human and we are subject to make mistakes and when you make a mistake you learn from it and you don't do it again...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).