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...beef is not so much with prosecutors breaking the rules, although plenty do. In 2003 the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity found that prosecutorial misconduct led to charges being dismissed, convictions reversed or sentences reduced in more than 2,000 cases since 1970. Davis' greater worry is all the behavior considered within bounds but outside any reasonable notion of fair play. She points to a case's early stages to show the power prosecutors have for abuse--and how she would fix the system...
...Kilson of attempting to kiss her during off-hours. In 1983, Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez was disciplined for sexually harassing a female junior faculty member in the department. And in 1985, Professor of Government Douglas A. Hibbs Jr. said he would resign after being accused of sexual misconduct, according to Crimson articles at the time...
...Supreme Court Chief justice is as unlikely a hero as his ride. But he is at the center of an escalating crisis that threatens to destabilize Pakistan's military dictatorship. On Saturday, the Chief Justice, who was suspended by President-General Pervez Musharraf nearly three months ago for alleged misconduct, left his home in Islamabad to address a High Court Lawyer's convention in Abbottabad, 70 miles away. The journey took 15 hours...
...Angeles presented its own unique challenges. The city was plagued by gang violence, simmering racial tensions and a sordid history of police misconduct. The department was, and still is, under federal supervision to mind its civil rights Ps and Qs as part of a 2001 consent decree following the scandal involving an LAPD anti-gang unit in the Rampart division, whose cops committed acts of corruption and brutality...
...thing is, attempted misconduct is still wrong, and Gonzales probably shouldn't get off the hook so easily. He's a member of the Texas bar and subject to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. One of those rules says, "a lawyer shall not engage in conduct constituting obstruction of justice." The rule is based on the American Bar Association model rules, which refer to "Conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice". And since the Acting Attorney General - the arbiter of all things legal in the Administration - had already decided that the eavesdropping program as constituted was illegal, there...