Campaign Pledges to Prosecute

Authors

Peter A. Joy
Kevin C. McMunigal, Case Western University School of LawFollow

Abstract

Given the immense power vested in the prosecutor and the fact that more than 95 percent of chief prosecutors at the state and local level are elected, it is surprising that the ethics of pledges to prosecute have largely been ignored by both legal commentators and the media. In this column, we explore this neglected intersection of politics and ethics.

Keywords

Prosecutors

Publication Date

2007

Document Type

Article

Place of Original Publication

Criminal Justice

Publication Information

21 (4) Criminal Justice 40 (2007)

Repository Citation

Joy, Peter A. and McMunigal, Kevin C., "Campaign Pledges to Prosecute" (2007). Faculty Publications. 838.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/838