Patrick Leahy actually said...

We would have thought that by now we would have seen a curtailing of the rate of post-conviction DNA exonerations.

Leahy notes the unexpected increase in post-conviction DNA exonerations over time.

11/09/2009

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I think the prosecutor is in many ways the most important person in the whole criminal justice system.

I have said many times and in a lot of different contexts that our criminal justice system is the envy of the world.

Prosecutorial misconduct cannot be tolerated. I would not tolerate it when I was a prosecutor.