The Innocence project (NY) has announced the release of a new report calling for greater transparency and accountability for prosecutors.
On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson, which granted prosecutors broad immunity for their misconduct, a coalition of innocence organizations today released a new report, Prosecutorial Oversight: A National Dialogue in the Wake of Connick v. Thompson, calling for greater transparency and accountability for prosecutors. Although prosecutors have long argued that there are sufficient systems in place to guard against misconduct, the report reviewed court findings of misconduct over a five year period for five states, documenting 660 findings of misconduct – a likely undercount given the difficulties in identifying this behavior. Of these cases, we know of only one prosecutor who was disciplined for his misconduct, and that took a change of law by the Texas Legislature. The report, which was produced in conjunction with forums featuring a broad array of criminal justice stakeholders in the five states surveyed, provides a list of recommendations that states should pursue to increase prosecutorial transparency and accountability.
This report was a collaborative effort by several organizations that oversaw the design and implementations of the research process. The organizations primarily responsible were the Innocence Project, the Veritas Initiative at Santa Clara University School of Law, Innocence Project New Orleans and Resurrection after Exoneration. A number of additional organizations also provided support in hosting and presenting the prosecutorial oversight forums. These included the Arizona Justice Project, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project and the Actual Innocence Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law.
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Hampstead Cover Up – I Believe The Children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNMWvD9wPEg
Review: ‘We Believe the Children,’ on Child Abuse Hysteria in the 1980s – The New York Times | Aug. 6, 2015 http://nyti.ms/1OVuwTj
“Feminists had been early advocates for abused children, but it wasn’t their primary focus. “In the 1970s feminists had talked much more about rape than about child abuse,” Mr. Beck writes. But by 1980 or so, legislators no longer wanted to hear about the role of race and class in sexual violence. “What legislators and pundits were still willing to hear, to the exclusion of almost everything else on the feminist agenda, was that the country’s children were at risk.” Mr. Beck believes that an unholy alliance between anti-pornography feminists, like Andrea Dworkin, and the Christian right fostered the overly fearful climate in which schoolchildren were lectured about “good touch” versus “bad touch,” and adults could be easily accused of the latter.”
Well, all I can say is … DUH!
The problem with prosecutors is patently obvious on the face of it.
Politics has, and continues to, putrify the justice system.
Phil, Spot on!
How is this possible? 63% of female exoneration cases where a woman was convicted of a crime that never occurred! … Going after the “easy” convictions for prosecutors? “What you need to know about the wrongful conviction of women in the U.S”. — The Innocence Project | March 2016 http://bit.ly/1Y164V5
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