{"id":1925,"date":"2023-05-26T16:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T20:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/?page_id=1925"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:09:19","slug":"prosecutorial-mutiny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/in-print\/volume-60-number-4-fall-2023\/prosecutorial-mutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutorial Mutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"page1347R_mcid4\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Elected<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">progressive<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">prosecutors<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">face<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">resistance<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">on<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">many<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">fronts<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">to<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">their <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">reforms of the overly harsh and racist criminal legal system. One of these forms <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">of resistance is particularly corrosive<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u2014<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">internal dissension by line prosecutors. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">This resistance flummoxes criminal legal system reform and undemocratically <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">interferes with the will of the electorate. This resistance, which we term<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page1347R_mcid5\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">prose<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">cutorial<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page1347R_mcid46\" class=\"markedContent\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">mutiny,<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201d<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">is also unethical under the American Bar Association\u2019s Model <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Rules. Given the pervasiveness of such mutiny alongside other sources of<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page1347R_mcid9\" class=\"markedContent\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">back<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">lash<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page1347R_mcid47\" class=\"markedContent\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">to criminal system change, we argue that progressive prosecutors are not <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the panacea to all the criminal legal system\u2019s ills as many have hoped, and that <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">resources should be focused on supporting other sources of change to the system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/60-4_prosecutorial-mutiny.pdf\">Read More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected progressive prosecutors face resistance on many fronts to their reforms of the overly harsh and racist criminal legal system. One of these forms of resistance is particularly corrosive\u2014internal dissension by line prosecutors. This resistance flummoxes criminal legal system reform and undemocratically interferes with the will of the electorate. This resistance, which we term \u201cprosecutorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9515,"featured_media":0,"parent":1913,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1925","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1925\/revisions\/1926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}