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IPFS News Link • Criminal Justice System

New Orleans Scandal Gives Credence to ‘Epidemic of Prosecutor Misconduct’ Charge

• Wendy McElroy
In comedy, it’s said that ‘timing is everything.’ Apparently it is in scandal, too.

On the very day that the Center for Prosecutor Integrity released its white paper declaring prosecutor misconduct to be at ‘epidemic’ levels, a federal district judge in New Orleans vacated the sentences of five city police officers in the slayings of two people and the injury of four on Danziger Bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005....

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