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Will the election for Morgenthau's successor fail us?

By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel

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Moments ago, the NYTimes reported that famed Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau will not be seeking re-election. How should we think of prosecutorial elections that follow? Are they good for democracy? Criminal justice?I was pleased to get some aid on the subject just this morning via a SSRN bulletin. Ron Wright (WFU), a regular guest-prawf here, has just posted on SSRN a draft of what looks like a great article that will help us think through some of these issues with more clarity.Here's the abstract.How Prosecutor Elections Fail Us, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, ForthcomingRONALD F. WRIGHT, Wake Forest University...

Full post as published by Prawfs on February 27, 2009 (boomark / email).

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