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If you ask the public how prosecutors are held accountable, you’ll usually hear some version of this:…
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Every day across the United States, people accused of crimes face an impossible gamble: plead guilty (even…
In America, we like to believe that truth always wins. That, if a person is proven innocent, they walk free.
But, in the real world of the U.S. justice system, innocence is not enough.
Judicial discretion and immunity exist for a reason: to let judges make decisions without fear of retaliation….
The right to appeal a conviction is one of the most fundamental protections in the American justice…
The Bottom Line For millions of people, the legal system itself is a source of ongoing trauma:…
The Bottom Line Modern criminal prosecutions operate less like a pursuit of justice and more like a…
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