Reply #117: This is one of the main reasons why prosecutors shouldn't be elected.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

One of the ways in which I think the British system is superior to the American one is that our prosecutors are appointed civil servants, not elected; they're answerable to the law rather than to the press.

People who *make* laws should be elected and be democratically accountable, but people who *enforce* them - prosecutors, judges, etc - should be accountable only to the law.


Incidentally, the murdered didn't walk free; he's already served 28 years in prison and may serve another 12.