@article{1479995,
      recid = {1479995},
      author = {Medwed, Daniel S., },
      title = {Prosecution Complex : America's Race to Convict and Its  Impact on the Innocent /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within  the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be  ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair  trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be-and  they are also advocates of the government whose success  rates are measured by how many convictions they get.  Because of this second role, sometimes prosecutors suppress  evidence in order to establish a defendant's guilt and  safeguard that conviction over time.Daniel S. Medwed, a  nationally-recognized authority on wrongful convictions,  has wrestled with these issues for nearly fifteen years,  ever since he accepted a job as a public defender with the  Legal Aid Society of New York City. Combining his hands-on  experience in the courtroom and his role as a teacher and  scholar in the classroom, Medwed shows how prosecutors are  told to lock up criminals and protect the rights of  defendants. This double role creates an institutional  "prosecution complex" that animates how district attorneys'  offices treat potentially innocent defendants at all stages  of the process-and that can cause prosecutors to aid in the  conviction of the innocent. Ultimately, Prosecution Complex  is not intended to portray prosecutors as rogue officials  indifferent to the conviction of the innocent, but rather  to explain why, while most prosecutors aim to do justice,  only some hit that target consistently.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479995},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814796245.001.0001},
}