Tag Archives: prosecutors
For the Attorney General, All Aboard For The Penn State Ethics Train Wreck!
Oh yes, there are still seats left on the Penn State child molestation scandal Ethics Train Wreck! Continue reading
Filed under Law & Law Enforcement, Professions
Ethics Quiz: Who is the Most Incompetent Elected Official—the DA Who Doesn’t Care If A Convicted Prisoner Is Really Guilty, Or The Assemblywoman Who Doesn’t Know About The First Amendment?
For this weekend’s Ethics Alarms quiz, I am asking readers to help me determine the Incompetent Official of the Week, when two unusually qualified candidates are running neck and neck. Continue reading
Something For the Casey Anthony Lynch Mob to Think About
How many of raving bloggers, Nancy Grace fans and red-faced women waiving “Justice for Caylee!” placards would be willing to accept a guilty verdict and a death sentence that were fixed by prosecutors, as long as they were positive that the defendant did the heinous crime? I wonder. Continue reading
Filed under Citizenship, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, U.S. Society
Marcia Clark, Exploiting the Anthony Verdict for Her Own Sake
Marcia Clark apparently saw an opportunity in the Casey Anthony verdict to rehabilitate her tarnished reputation, and grabbed it. The result is “Worse Than O.J.!”, a new low in self-serving analysis. Continue reading
Unethical Quote of the Week: Wrongly Imprisoned Victim John Thompson
I think John Thompson deserves damages galore; our justice system ruined his life. Nonetheless, nobody should take a case to the Supreme Court based on a theory he doesn’t believe himself. Continue reading
Filed under Ethics Quotes, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, U.S. Society
Strange Ethics: Another Indiana Prosecutor Jumps the Rails
There’s a wonderful Charles Addams cartoon that shows a bunch of hobos and bums lying around Greek columns under a college reunion “Welcome Alumni!” banner. One of the disheveled alums says, “I used to think it was me, but maybe … Continue reading
Filed under Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions
And the Frontrunner for the 2011 “Eliot Spitzer Award for Outrageous Hypocrisy” is….
Now THAT’s hypocrisy! Continue reading
Ethics and Freeing the Unjustly Convicted: A Utilitarian Controversy in Illinois
Northwestern University journalism professor David Protess and his student reporters have been carrying out a heroic and aggressive project aimed at rescuing innocent residents of Illinois’s death row. It was Protess’s Medill Innocence Project that played a major role in … Continue reading
