Time to Tame Prosecutors Gone Wild

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National Review:

by SIDNEY POWELL

Misconduct among them is rampant but can and should be curtailed.

At CPAC next week, former majority leader of the House Tom Delay, John Fund, and I, among others, will be speaking on a panel dubbed “Prosecutors Gone Wild.” The topic alone is a sad commentary on the current state of our criminal-justice system. As Ninth Circuit judge Alex Kozinski has said, “there is an epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct abroad in the land.” The epidemic is devastating the lives of innocent people and breaking families; it is devouring our tax dollars; and it has destroyed the public’s faith in our justice system.

 

At a time when the federal deficit is out of control, all resources are scarce, the very seams of our prisons are bursting from overcrowding, and we lead the world in incarceration, it is outrageous that we continue to incarcerate innocent people and harass and destroy the lives of others through prolonged, baseless prosecutions. We have replaced the constitutional imperative of presumption of innocence with the ever-increasing politicization and weaponization of every federal agency as an arm of the White House to achieve its socioeconomic agenda.

 

Lawyers working for and with the Innocence Project across the country have freed more than 1,300 people, many of whom have been incarcerated for decades for crimes they did not commit. This publication and others, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the New York Observer, are trying to wake us up. The truth about victims of prosecutorial misconduct is that, but for the grace of God, there go any one of us.