Friday, June 28, 2019

Did she sleep through her legal ethics courses?

In USA Today Glenn Reynolds wrote about a California prosecutor who lied and falsified evidence. Kamala Harris was then the California Attorney General. Incredibly, she decided to appeal the case (she lost).
Harris's key argument: That putting a fake confession in the transcript wasn't "outrageous" because it didn't involve physical brutality, like chaining someone to a radiator and beating him with a hose.

Well, no. It just involved an officer of the court knowingly producing a fraudulent document in order to secure an illicit advantage. If Harris really thinks that knowingly producing a fraudulent document to secure an illicit advantage isn't "outrageous," then perhaps she slept through her legal ethics courses.
Read more here.

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