Prosecutorial Misconduct and Capital Punishment

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What's at Stake

鈥淸The public prosecutor] is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.鈥

鈥擴.S. Supreme Court in Berger v. United States (1935)

鈥淸The public prosecutor] is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.鈥

鈥擴.S. Supreme Court in Berger v. United States (1935)

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