New York City Prosecutors' Misconduct Goes Unpunished,
ProPublica Finds  Categories: Courts  When New York's
prosecutors play dirty, they almost never suffer consequences.
When New York City prosecutors break the rules, the consequences
can be serious: Murderers can go free, and innocent people can
lose years of their life in jail. But as a new ProPublica
investigation released today makes clear, prosecutorial
misconduct almost always goes unpunished.  Combing through the
records, ProPublica's reporters found a single case in which a
prosecutor, Claude Stuart, then a Queens Assistant District
Attorney, lost his job for abusing his power, but that only
happened after Stuart had been caught witholding and
manipulating evidence in multiple cases and lying to a judge.
But the fact that Stuart faced any consequences at all for his
misconduct makes him an exception.    The report, which is worth
reading in its entirety, may ring a bell for readers who
remember the Voice's January cover story on Brooklyn District At