«
»

End Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors

Monday, April 21st, 2008

That’s the topic of my Fox column this week.

Digg it |  reddit |  del.icio.us |  Fark

This entry was posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 10:43 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under General Criminal Justice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “End Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors”

  1. #1 |  UCrawford |  April 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    Outstanding column…I completely agree with the ideas you’ve put forth.

  2. #2 |  Skip Oliva |  April 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 am

    “We shouldn’t allow every aggrieved defendant to sue his prosecutor.”

    Well, sure, if we didn’t allow every aggrieved prosecutor to sue a defendant…

  3. #3 |  Tokin42 |  April 22nd, 2008 at 6:13 am

    Nicely put.

  4. #4 |  Big Boy |  April 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 am

    More pure evil is done by vigilante prosecutors than any other element of the Criminal Justice system, including crooked cops and stupid judges.

  5. #5 |  Jefferson |  April 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Well done. It seems that bizarre that prosecutorial actions that are patently fraudulent are still subject to immunity.

  6. #6 |  Bronwyn |  April 22nd, 2008 at 9:08 am

    This should bring in some good e-mail :)

  7. #7 |  Dave Krueger |  April 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 am

    A prosecutor’s mission is not about truth and justice, but only to
    administer the most vicious attack possible with the least amount of effort. When it comes to the law, even the courts can’t save you from a prosecutor. Regardless of the verdict, your life is going to be destroyed and no one is going to care.

  8. #8 |  Frank |  April 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Sovereign Immunity and qualified immunity are concepts that need to be completely eliminated from the legal lexicon of this nation. Too many bad government actors are allowed to hide behind the concepts.

Leave a Reply