Prosecutors Rarely Sanctioned For Judicial Misconduct Sending Innocents To Jail

Prosecutors are rarely ever punished for misconduct that leads to innocent people being sent to prison, a new report from a non-profit legal aid organization said Tuesday. The report, undertaken by the legal aid organization The Innocence Project and reported by Sputnik, examined 660 cases from 2004-2008 in which courts founds instances of prosecutorial misconduct. Of the 660 cases – which ranged from mischaracterizing evidence to suborning perjury, 527 of the cases judges upheld the convictions despite the misconduct. In all, only one prosecutor was disciplined for their actions. “In the handful of situations where an investigation is launched, the committees generally failed to properly...