prosecutors

Win for Law Professors in Key Prosecutor-Accountability Bid

Arthur Applbaum, a prominent Harvard Kennedy School ethics professor, scandalized the legal world in the 1990s when he said that…

June 29, 2022

Why San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Has Been Recalled

Chesa Boudin, the reform-minded district attorney of San Francisco, has officially been recalled. Early results from the June 7 recall…

June 8, 2022

Why “Drug-Induced Homicide” Doesn’t Have to be Prosecuted

Over the past five years, five more states have passed drug-induced homicide (DIH) statutes, reflecting the country’s ever-increasing investment in…

May 27, 2022

Is the “Progressive Prosecutor” Movement on Its Last Legs?

Once upon a time, Milwaukee elected Frank Zeidler, the last socialist mayor of a major American city. His last term…

May 20, 2022

“No Evidence” Higher Incarceration Rates Reduce Fears of Crime

A population that perceives itself at the top of the pile soon becomes fearful, runs one theory, because the only…

May 3, 2022

FL State Attorney Launches Pilot to Stop “Traumatic” Misdemeanor Arrests

Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit has just implemented its first-ever Adult Civil Citation program—a 90-day pilot that will divert people detained…

April 20, 2022

Tucson’s Top Prosecutor Pulls Back From No-Minor-Drug-Charges Policy

In 2016, Barbara LaWall, then the elected prosecutor of Pima County (Tucson), published an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star…

March 23, 2022

Baltimore Prosecutors Have Been Inflating Charges for Black Defendants

Black residents are greatly overrepresented in arrests and court cases in the city of Baltimore, details a report by researchers…

March 22, 2022

Oklahoma Death Penalty Case Flags Inadequate Defense Funding

Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin did not want to release the dashcam video of two officers getting shot by David…

March 17, 2022

Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Has Profound Limitations

Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout started the Oakland-based nonprofit For The…

March 3, 2022