Prosecutors Control the Criminal Justice System - Power Goes Unchecked

NY Times

Angela Y. Davis, a professor of law at American University and former director of the D.C. Public Defender Service, argues in The New York Times that prosecutors are “the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system” and because “95 percent of all criminal cases are resolved with guilty pleas, it is very clear that prosecutors control the criminal justice system through their charging and plea bargaining powers.”