UPDATE: The state has offered to send up to 10 prosecutors to Anchorage, days after the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reported that hundreds of misdemeanor cases had been dropped since May because the city couldn’t hit court deadlines for speedy trials.
The state offered to send up to 10 prosecutors to Anchorage days after the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reported that hundreds of misdemeanor cases had been dropped since May because the city c...
Many of the people who demand that we have no cops or prosecutors haven’t thought through what that means. The criminal legal system is ridiculously biased toward the State, but even though I’m a career criminal defense lawyer, I acknowledge that we need competent, honest, and fair prosecutors.