Absolute Immunity

“Prosecutors are rewarded for winning at all costs, they have no incentive to seek the truth rather than a conviction, and they are entirely unaccountable when they pervert justice in pursuit of victory,” observes Idaho resident John T. Bujak. “People shouldn’t believe that their innocence provides any protection. The question isn’t whether you have done anything wrong, but whether the criminal justice system is going to target you – and once you’re in that system, you face prohibitive odds of emerging from it without being hurt.” This familiar complaint was voiced by an apparently unlikely plaintiff: From January 2009 until October … Continue reading Absolute Immunity