Senator Ted Stevens was given a pass after Attorney General Ed Holder dropped the case due to prosecutorial misconduct. Let’s get one thing straight, this wasn’t done because they believed Ted Stevens was innocent, but because it was believed that the prosecutors acted improperly. And while I’m not big fan of Ted Stevens, I am a fan of the rule of law and fair trials. Ed Holder is moving us in the right direction.
Prosecutors act improperly often. This was made evident in the Duke Lacrosse case, in Jena, Louisiana, and apparently in the Ted Stevens case. All too often the victims of unfair prosecution are people of color. They are young people who have are either overzealously prosecuted, or unfairly convicted due to the prosecutors not following proper procedure. Often laws are twisted in order to get convictions, as the rash of teenagers being convicted of child pornography for taking their own nude photographs shows. It’s time for some accountability among prosecutors.
Rule of law is important and should include even prosecutors. We have lived in a country where a conviction has been more important than the truth for too long. Hopefully Ed is starting a trend.
1 comments:
the justice system is partially fault in the Steven's case, but then it would seem that the public's short attention span might also be at fault in this and similar scenarios
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