Sad story from this excellent legal blog:
Aspiring barristers are still routinely taught that the role of a prosecutor is not to obtain a conviction at all costs but to act as a “minister of justice”. How much more important this was in the mid-nineteenth century when a “prisoner” (and he was always a prisoner) on a capital charge had no right to give evidence on his own behalf and no right to representation by counsel. Nor, in the ordinary case would he have had any means to pay for it.
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http://barristerblogger.com/published-articles-3/sam-wright-and-the-unwilling-prosecutor/
Aspiring barristers are still routinely taught that the role of a prosecutor is not to obtain a conviction at all costs but to act as a “minister of justice”. How much more important this was in the mid-nineteenth century when a “prisoner” (and he was always a prisoner) on a capital charge had no right to give evidence on his own behalf and no right to representation by counsel. Nor, in the ordinary case would he have had any means to pay for it.
Continue at
http://barristerblogger.com/published-articles-3/sam-wright-and-the-unwilling-prosecutor/
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