[Volokh] David Bernstein: America's Most Fair-Minded Prosecutor:

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Posted by David Bernstein:
America's Most Fair-Minded Prosecutor:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_04_06-2008_04_12.shtml#1207669033


   Radley Balko interview Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins,
   who is dramatically moving his office away from a traditional "convict
   at all costs" mentality, to a philosophy that the prosecutors' role is
   to pursue justice, not rack up convictions.

   Balko suggests he's America's best prosecutor. I don't know about
   that, and the interview doesn't actual discuss his skills in
   prosecuting crimes. But Watkins certainly seems like a fair-minded
   breath of fresh air, who takes the biblical injunction "tzedek, tzedek
   tirdof" (justice, justice thou shalt pursue) seriously.