Office of Professional Responsibility

Report: Misconduct By Feds Led To Lighter Sentences For Defendants

Ryan J. Reilly | December 28, 2010, 1:12PM

Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.

USA Today is out with another report critical of the actions of federal prosecutors. The newspaper found that, in at least 48 of the 201 cases since 1997 in which federal courts found that prosecutors violated laws or ethics rules, defendants were convicted but were given shorter sentences because of that misconduct.

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