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Trey Gowdy: “But why not just exercise your prosecutorial discretion and not prosecute the case period?”

On the recordApril 7, 2014
But why not just exercise your prosecutorial discretion and not prosecute the case period?
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Trey Gowdy
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Gowdy questions the Attorney General's discretion in prosecuting low-level drug cases.

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