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Kirsten Gillibrand: “You want nothing else because if you drive cases forward because you feel like it or because you do not like the…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
You want nothing else because if you drive cases forward because you feel like it or because you do not like the perpetrator or do not like the accused or really like the victim, you are using bias.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Gillibrand emphasizes the need for objectivity in prosecutorial decisions.

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