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some thoughts, from the Marshall Project, on the complexity and importance of the DA position:<\/p>\n

Sklansky, the Stanford professor, agrees that there is \u201csomething uncomfortable\u201d about how individual cases can drive an election campaign, and that this underscores the need to find better ways to measure how prosecutors do their jobs, including more data on charging and convictions. But overall he sees the current competitiveness as a sign that people are paying attention to how the criminal justice system works. \u201cThere was a long period where it seemed like there was a rigid logic to the politics of criminal justice, which led to ever-harsher sentences,\u201d he says. \u201cThat logic no longer holds.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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some thoughts, from the Marshall Project, on the complexity and importance of the DA position: Sklansky, the Stanford professor, agrees that there is \u201csomething uncomfortable\u201d about how individual cases can drive an election campaign, and that this underscores the need to find better ways to measure how prosecutors do their jobs, including more data on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,51],"class_list":["post-10650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prayers-to-st-joseph-cafasso","tag-so-far-from-god-so-close-to-the-united-states"],"yoast_head":"\nTomorrow's Other Elections: Your District Attorney Races<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"some thoughts, from the Marshall Project, on the complexity and importance of the DA 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