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The California Prosecutor - Integrity, Independence, Leadership, California District Attorneys Association

California Agencies

Over the last few years, there seems to have been a concerted effort to discredit the prosecutorial profession. A few news organizations, including the Chicago Tribune and USA Today, have issued results of unscientific surveys that attempt to demonstrate that prosecutorial misconduct is a significant issue in the federal courts as well as in some state courts. None of these surveys has been able to uncover any but the rarest instances of intentional misconduct by prosecutors, state or federal.

Most of these reports succumb to their own inaccuracies and die a natural death. One recent report, however, has managed to …