Autonomy In DA

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When dealing with autonomy is generally centered base on management of prosecutorial, this enables the assistant district attorney to have the freedom to make his or her own decisions. In some DA’s office there typically written policies regarding cases. Attempting to control the supervision of the assistants tend to erode the morale of the office ( Neubauer, D. W., & Fradella, H. F. 2014). However, this can help reduce a lot of mistakes from the assistant by reviewing all cases to ensure that policies are been followed this only makes the DA assistant more uncomfortable because they feel that they’re trusted.

Reference: Neubauer, D. W., & Fradella, H. F. (2014). America's courts and the criminal justice system. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage

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