Title

The Necessity of the Good Person Prosecutor

Authors

Jessica A. Roth, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawFollow

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Description

In a 2001 essay, Professor Abbe Smith asked the question whether a good person—i.e., a person who is committed to social justice—can be a good prosecutor. Although she acknowledged some hope that the answer to her question could be “yes,” Professor Smith concluded that the answer then was “no”—in part because she saw individual prosecutors generally as having very little discretion to “temper the harsh reality of the criminal justice system.” In this Online Symposium revisiting Professor Smith’s question seventeen years later, my answer to her question is “yes”—a good person can be a good prosecutor.

Publication Date

2018

Volume

87

Publisher

Fordham Law Review Online

First Page

30

Keywords

social justice, prosecutor, prosecution, criminal law

Disciplines

Law

Recommended Citation

Jessica A. Roth, The Necessity of the Good Person Prosecutor, 87 Fordham Law Review Online 30 (2018).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/faculty-articles/460