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DoJ media ploy on steroid investigation rightly decried as 'foul'

By Gritsforbreakfast

Via Sentencing Law & Policy, at least somebody in the legal community agrees with me that the US Department of Justice shouldn't have used threats of prosecution to force uncorroborated public accusations against Roger Clemens and other big-league baseball players.Writing in the online magazine Slate ("Foul Ball," Jan.14), law prof Frank Bowman declares that "the U.S. Department of Justice had no business feeding [Sen. George] Mitchell, and through him the public, damaging information about players it lacks the evidence or the will to prosecute."While I disagree strongly with Bowman's complaint that more players haven't been prosecuted, his second main point captures perfectly why and how the Justice Department misused prosecutorial resources on behalf of the Mitchell report...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 15, 2008 (boomark / email).