Time to get serious about prosecutorial misconduct

Prosecutor misconduct is rampant in the CJ system and is an important factor in many innocent people being convicted. As this article suggests, we need to get serious about meaningful sanctions against such prosecutors. The prosecutor's job is not to get convictions, but to see that justice is done. Often, justice is a conviction, but too often we have convictions without justice. This trend is long overdue. The U.S. Supreme Court has given prosecutors too much leeway in terms of federal civil rights liability.