Can a Good Person be a Good Prosecutor in 2018?
39 Pages Posted: 27 Oct 2018 Last revised: 19 Mar 2019
Date Written: October 1, 2018
Abstract
Revisiting the question posed by Abbe Smith in 2001: Can one simultaneously be a good person and a good prosecutor?
Keywords: prosecutor, criminal justice, ethics, prosecution, criminal, Sessions, Krasner
JEL Classification: Law
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Green, Bruce A. and Smith, Abbe and Davis, Angela J. and Johnson, Vida and Patton, David and Roiphe, Rebecca and Roth, Jessica and Yaroshefsky, Ellen, Can a Good Person be a Good Prosecutor in 2018? (October 1, 2018). Fordham Law Review Online, Vol. 87 (2018), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper 3257914, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3257914 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3257914
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