{"id":5138,"date":"2015-10-04T19:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T23:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:41:21","slug":"dishonest-prosecutors-lots-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5138","title":{"rendered":"Dishonest Prosecutors, Lots of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" sidth=95% src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/09\/30\/opinion\/30wed2web\/30wed2web-master315.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=caption>(Photo by John Anderson)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Prosecutors who bend or even break the rules to win a conviction almost never face any punishment. But even given lax controls, the blatant and systemic misconduct in the Orange County district attorney\u2019s office in Southern California stands out. In a scheme that may go back as far as 30 years, prosecutors and the county sheriff\u2019s department have elicited illegal jailhouse confessions, failed to turn over evidence that is favorable to defendants and lied repeatedly in court about what they did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/30\/opinion\/dishonest-prosecutors-lots-of-them-in-southern-calif.html?emc=edit_th_20150930&#038;nl=todaysheadlines&#038;nlid=58186502\">editorial<\/a> by the editorial board of the <strong>New York Times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by John Anderson) &#8220;Prosecutors who bend or even break the rules to win a conviction almost never face any punishment. But even given lax controls, the blatant and systemic misconduct in the Orange County district attorney\u2019s office in Southern California stands out. In a scheme that may go back as far as 30 years,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5138\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dishonest Prosecutors, Lots of Them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}