Prosecutorial Prosecution

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According to A Statistical Analysis (2012), "Prosecutorial discretion is the authority of an agency or office to decide what charges to bring and how to purse each case". A law-enforcement officer who declines to purse a case against a person has favorably exercised. In the case dealing with Bedi you can say Queens prosecutor tried his case in a unfair mannar. According to Siegel, Larry,Schmalleger, Frank, and Worrall, John (2014), "This type of behavior is not unique. In 2010, the state bar association crated a task force that studied 53 cases of wrongful conviction. It found that prosecutorial and police misconduct accounted for over half the case". (pg.210).
This type of behavior shouldn't be tolerated period within the Court System. So

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