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In reply to the discussion: Texas Prosecutor faces justice over man wrongly convicted and imprisoned for 25 years [View all]The Wizard
(12,545 posts)who has since passed, did 13 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. The prosecutors in the case withheld exculpatory evidence and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor for a new trial, one in which he was found not guilty.
One of the prosecutors became a Superior Court judge and others won promotions. State law prohibits penalizing prosecutors from actions or inactions in executing the duties of office.
We have an adversarial justice system that demands each side presents the most vigorous case possible. Because prosecutors are promoted or continue on the job depends on convictions, not justice.
With the resources of the State such as funding and jail house "witnesses" willing to lie under oath for time off their sentences, defendants are often wrongfully convicted.
Sometimes prosecutors just have to get a conviction to stay employed.
He was never compensated for the time in prison for a wrongful prosecution and conviction.
Perhaps we'd be better served with an inquisitorial system in which learned judges listen to all arguments and confer to determine legal outcomes.