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Injustice With Impunity: A Texas Tale

The Crime Report

He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. By night he drafted court documents for judges to sign. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, represents her.

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How Duke Law Researchers Pried Open the ‘Black Box’ of Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

A paper published by the Duke University School of Law , which cited both commentaries, said the process was a distortion of justice because most—if not all—of the deals were concluded in secret, hidden behind what many have called the “black box” of prosecutorial discretion. The North Carolina and Massachusetts Experiments.

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