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Then why does this sort of thing keep happening? This is another reason why police officers should be required to carry malpractice insurance, that they pay fo

• garrettgarcia 2y ago
  How often does it happen? 0.1% of cases? 0.01%?
  • mrkeen 2y ago
    That figure sounds right - if you're talking about prosecutors being punished. A survey conducted by the Innocence Project, Innocence Project New Orleans, Resurrection After Exoneration and the Veritas Initiative looked at five diverse states over a five-year period (2004-2008) and identified 660 cases in which courts found prosecutors committed misconduct, such as tampering with key evidence, withholding evidence from the defendant or coercing a witness to give false testimony. [..] Of the 660 cases examined, only one prosecutor accused of misconduct was disciplined. https://innocenceproject.org/why-holding-prosecutors-accountable-is-so-difficult/ https://innocenceproject.org/why-holding-prosecutors-account...