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...legal ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, there are limits. "Certainly prosecutors would face a professional obligation to check out or verify the allegations in this case," she says. "Not doing so would represent a potential abuse of prosecutorial discretion." The key, she adds, is whether prosecutors chose not to pursue evidence of criminal activity by Republicans because of political bias or a conflict of interest. Sometimes prosecutors have a more benign motive; they may simply verify that allegations are untrue or be unclear on how to categorize the offense or the relevant statute of limitations. Certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: A Case of Selective Justice? | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...worked for Sessions as well when he held the post. In such circumstances, say experts on legal ethics, it is nearly always incumbent on investigators to inform a third party and recuse themselves from further questioning to avoid a conflict of interest. In this instance, it appears the investigators chose not to recuse themselves but to simply ignore the allegations. (Steve Feaga, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Canary's office, says, "I'm confident that we investigated every viable federal crime and prosecuted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: A Case of Selective Justice? | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...legal ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, there are limits. "Certainly prosecutors would face a professional obligation to check out or verify the allegations in this case," she says. "Not doing so would represent a potential abuse of prosecutorial discretion." The key, she adds, is whether prosecutors chose not to pursue evidence of criminal activity by Republicans because of political bias or a conflict of interest. Sometimes prosecutors have a more benign motive; they may simply verify that allegations are untrue or be unclear on how to categorize the offense or the relevant statute of limitations. Certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selective Justice in Alabama? | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...insisted that in the end top editors chose the best written essay as the winner...

Author: By Mohindra Rupram, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Why College Matters, According to Yale | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

...Whoever we chose, The New York Times would have been criticized,” he said...

Author: By Mohindra Rupram, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Why College Matters, According to Yale | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

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