Asked by Gregory Lewis ^(1,502)
Gregory Lewis 16 days 10 hours ago. (More question by this person)

Should prosecutors be immune from being prosecuted?

The Supreme Court will hear the case this fall of a man who spent 25 years in prison for a crime that both the prosecutor and the police knew he did not commit. He couldn't have committed the crime, because both police and prosecutor knew the man was in jail that day. They went ahead with their investigation, anyway, because it was expedient and easier than looking for the real killer.

County prosecutors have invoked "prosecutorial immunity," claiming that an individual has no Constitutional right Not to be framed!

Answer from Connor Davidson ^(5,530)
Connor Davidson 16 days 6 hours ago. More questions answered by this person)
Yes. No one is ever above the law and that should always be true. Regardless.

Answer from Paul Schroeder ^(2,251) 16 days 5 hours ago. More questions answered by this person)
This country has more people per capita, imprisoned behind bars than any other totalitarian, non free regime in the world.

The U.S.A. has more pepole in prison per capita than Libya, Russia, Cuba or even Communist China.

Prosecutors should by law and as part of their education and formal training be required to spend a full year in jail( as should many judges) before they sentence or cause to be imprisoned any person.

Comment from Connor Davidson ^(5,530) 16 days 3 hours ago.
The last sentance is a little silly. Don't you think?

Comment from Paul Schroeder ^(2,251) 16 days ago.
That's like saying that it's wrong for psychiatrists to have to submit to a full year on a couch undergoing psychoanalytic psychotherapy(as they must) as a prerequisite for their training; no, I reiterate that judges and especially, smarmy ruthless prosecutors, should have to spend time in jail before sentencing someone to prison.It makes perfect sense to me,


in full recognition that the law is NOT always and may be rarely, justice.

Answer from Robert Ogden ⁽²²⁷⁾ 16 days 1 hour ago. More questions answered by this person)
Immunity, yes, unless it can be proven they conspired to place an innocent person in jail or proven they intentionally broke the law to prosecute. Then I'd consider sentencing them to the innocent man's fate.

Comment from Gregory Lewis ^(1,502) 15 days 22 hours ago.
The case was taken up today in the Supreme Court. As it stands, five Justices seem to favor the plaintiffs, who are the wrongly incarcerated men.


Naturally, Alito and Scalia are on the side of prosecutorial immunity.


There is abundant evidence that the County Prosecutor was in full cognition that the police were: A) giving them false evidence, and B) Withholding evidence. The prosecutor, being fully aware that they could have dropped the case, instead chose to carry it based on their prejudicial investigation, and simply ignoring evidence that the murder in question was carried out by an entirely different party.


- G

Answer from Marijo Phelps ^(2,873)
Marijo Phelps 15 days 20 hours ago. More questions answered by this person)
Sounds like a perfect time to set a president on that one - that is terrible and the man was in prison for a chunk of his life - someone else's turn now me thinks. Marijo

Answer from Mark Parsec ^(16,584)
Mark Parsec 14 days 15 hours ago. More questions answered by this person)
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Prosecutors... more than any other, should absolutely be subject to prosecution. It is a matter of equality under the law.