Supreme Court to take another look at prosecutorial misconduct

Prosecutors, says Angela Davis, former head of the D.C. public defenders office, ?are the most powerful officials in our criminal justice system.?

Davis, a professor at American University?s Washington College of Law, explains:

?They decide whether a person?s going to be charged, what to charge them with, whether there?s going to be a plea bargain and what the plea bargain will be. As they make those decisions, they exercise almost boundless discretion.?

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