The fact that most prosecutors are bad is proven by their routine violation of American Bar Association Rule 3.8 (ABA 3.8) on a daily basis. The most recent example of their routine rule breaking is the ridiculous prosecution of Mr Patel, where his prosecutor blatantly violates provisions 3.8(a) & (d). Everyone can see, from the actual video footage of the “kidnapping attempt”, that Mr. Patel’s actions did not provide probable cause that any crime had been committed. Thus, in order for the prosecutor to be in compliance with ABA 3.8, he or she must drop all charges against Mr. Patel immediately. But, since they are corrupt tyrants, they didn’t drop the charges. Instead, they opposed bail for Mr. Patel. The judge rejected their nonsense and released Patel on bond immediately; but, the Judge’s good behavior in no way exonerates our inherently unjust “justice system.”
And as the many exoneration projects have proven, almost all prosecutors violate ABA 3.8(h) – that states: “When a prosecutor knows of clear and convincing evidence establishing that a defendant in the prosecutor’s jurisdiction was convicted of an offense that the defendant did not commit, the prosecutor shall seek to remedy the conviction.”
Thus, as soon as I challenged the obvious problems with the NIT report, Keith A. Becker was required by Rule 3.8 to drop all the charges. The widespread violation of ABA 3.8 by State & Federal prosecutors means we currently live in a police state. Like the proverbial Boiling Frog, we’ve been ignoring the heat too long.