Central Park 5 Prosecutor Drops Columbia Law Teaching Job After Netflix's 'When They See Us'

[Kind of Blue]

[mountain grammy]

1. Good.

Too many prosecutors want a conviction over the truth and justice.

[Perseus]

2. Unfortunately that goes both ways

My wife did jury duty not long ago, she was part of the trial, and what dish=gusted her was the fact that both lawyers were in a contest to win the trial regardless of the evidence that was presented.

Lawyers, in a way, are like athletes, they need to win the match for their record. I have nothing against lawyers, I love the profession, but I am always disgusted by people like John Dowd, Giuliani, Barr, and that kind of people who are in it for the money, the fame, but have no principles.

[Kind of Blue]

4. Yeah, but isn't accountability grand?

[mountain grammy]

5. But the prosecutor has far more power to do harm.

They can ignore exculpatory evidence so it's not disclosed to the defense, manipulate, scare, and bribe witnesses, plus the power to just lock people up, sometimes indefinitely.

[Kind of Blue]

7. Thanks very much, mountain grammy, for providing the fuller context

that especially emphasizes this OP is not about botherism.

[mountain grammy]

8. You're welcome. That case haunted me..

I remember thinking at the time those kids were being railroaded. Then when trump got involved, I was sure.

[Kind of Blue]

3. Gawd, don't I know it and those two really

rode the gravy train of their "win" for 30 long years.
I'm amazed by the swiftness of their, Fairstein and Lederer, lost positions at Vassar, Columbia, the literary agent and Doubleday drops. And now wondering who's next.