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A DA finally gets his comeuppance. Let's hope it's a trend.

Prior to contributing to this blog I wrote a number of replies to what others had said about the criminal justice system. I am a public defender who strongly believes in the adversary system of criminal justice, so long as it is tempered with reality. The PD has far less resources than the DA and the police combined, and does not have the peace officer powers those two have. One of the great equalizers in the criminal justice system is supposed to be the discovery power possessed only by the defense, via Brady v. Maryland. The defense is supposed to have little or no duty to give discovery to the DA ? the DA must prove the case on his/her own without help from the defense. But if the DA, or anyone working on the prosecution team, comes across ?exculpatory evidence,? then the DA must hand it over to the defense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Public Defender Dude on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).