Recommended Citation
Maureen Howard, The Prosecutorial Ethic: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, 61 UWLaw 16 (2010), https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-articles/529
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UWLaw
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Article
Abstract
Although the American trial system has been likened to an arena in which mental combatants fight “to the death ” (the verdict ), each warrior similarly skilled and equally committed to vanquishing the other in a forum with formal rules of engagement enforced by a learned and impartial judge, the role of the criminal prosecutor is qualitatively different from that of other advocates. This is because, unlike any other lawyer, a criminal prosecutor has an affirmative duty to the opposing party.
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