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"[O]ften competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Remember Justice Jackson's reference to the "often competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime", Johnson v. United States, 333 U.S. 10, 14 (1948)? See Shortfalls Unraveled Stevens's Conviction in today's Washington Post: Former department attorneys, for example, cited chronic problems that have plagued the unit: competition and confusion with partner prosecutors in U.S. attorney's offices around the country. Federal prosecutors in the District, for instance, were consulted about the Stevens case starting in 2006 but declined to participate, thinking that the charges were shaky, according to sources familiar with the discussions. The assistant U.S. attorneys also considered overly aggressive the prosecutors' early plan, later abandoned, to get a warrant to search the lawmaker's D...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on April 12, 2009 (boomark / email).