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  1. From the article excerpt:

    Mosby’s attorneys had said she has absolute prosecutorial immunity from actions taken as a state’s attorney.

    Neo wrote:
    It appears that, if Mosby and company hadn’t launched their own investigation, they would have been protected against all of this.

    I’ve often heard that prosecutors are entrusted with awesome powers. But the above sounds like they can do just about anything so long as they’re acting within the normal bounds of prosecution (whatever that means).

    What are the rules here? Why was the despicable Mike Nifong disbarred?

  2. Nifong should have spent a lot of time in jail for trying to railroad the lacrosse team members. The supposed rape victim told half a dozen different stories, the taxi cab driver said he didn’t see anything wrong with her, there was no physical evidence of rape, she couldn’t identify the rapists until she was shown photos of the lacrosse team members and Nifong hid exculpatory evidence from the defense. Other than that it was an exemplary prosecution.

  3. Lack of accountability inevitably fosters corruption.

    Since US didn’t use to be a corrupt country (in comparison with the usual level of corruption in most countries in the World), and I don’t think laws have changed in that regard, that means that this lack of accountability is a new phenomenon.

    Of course, accountability in US was more likely a social mechanism until now. Since society is changing and that mechanism is vanishing, now you’re likely asking for some kind of legal accountability.

    Good luck with that.

    You will discover that a law is a very poor substitute of a social accountability. I know, because that kind of laws already exist in countries where corruption is a more common political feature. And they don’t work very well since proving intentions is an almost impossible task, most of times those laws becoming political weapons to throw towards the adversary.

    Take your time. You will discover that in the near future.

  4. Over-reach and abuse of the law is more common than we think.

    It is only from extreme cases like this one, overcharging George Zimmerman (he might well have been successfully prosecuted on lesser charges), the Wisconsin John Doe laws, etc. that we get visibility to it.

    There is a lot of good fortune in encountering those in the LE community who are of good character (or maybe that should be misfortune in meeting the bad characters, as the vast majority probably are good characters), since there is plenty of room to operate for those who are not, given accountability is a problem, and given the great incentive to sweep problems under the rug.

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