Investigations by special prosecutors can take on a life of their own.
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Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
Prosecutors are all used to persons who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.
Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.
I think you have to look at these cold cases. If they're done properly, if the homicides are done properly, and everything's documented properly, you have a lot of concrete statements from those people that they would be able to look at them and refresh their memory.
It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.
The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating.
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.