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Prosecutors' Ethical Duty Of Disclosure In Memory Of Fred Zacharias, Bruce A. Green
Prosecutors' Ethical Duty Of Disclosure In Memory Of Fred Zacharias, Bruce A. Green
San Diego Law Review
This Article might lead one to ask which body better apprehended the nature of the prosecutorial disclosure rule. Two parts of this Article will explore that question and reach an unexpected conclusion: although the ABA ethics committee and the Ohio Supreme Court had opposite visions of equivalent rules, they may both be right. Even so, there is something obviously jarring about the divide, which reveals deficiencies in the rule adoption process. The ABA has an interest in persuading courts to adopt not only its Model Rules but also its interpretations of those rules, so the result seems to reflect a …