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The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

20: The Duties of a Prosecutor

The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

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True Crime

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Adnan Syed story had people asking us about the role of prosecutors in preventing wrongful convictions. What should they do and what are their limits? We discuss that and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor's legal proof.

0:07.0

And this is the prosecutor's legal proof. And Oh, Welcome back everyone to the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm your host Alice and

0:40.0

I'm joined as always by my discerning co-host Brett.

0:44.3

Wow Alice, discerning, I feel so, not judgmental, that's not the word.

0:49.1

Well, you see, it's not really fair to you because you don't exactly know where I'm going with this, but people who've clicked on this episode know that this is an episode about the role of the prosecutor, which calls for a lot of discernment, and I think you have great discerning

1:06.6

wisdom.

1:07.6

I really like how your words always tie into the episode, Alice.

1:11.6

It's a lot of pressure for you to keep doing that but you did that is good.

1:14.7

That was good. Look all I'm saying is for two years I've bit my tongue you know while you've come up with terms for me just

1:21.5

willy-nilly out of nowhere and here I am trying

1:24.4

really hard not to be an indictment against the way you've been doing it but to

1:29.2

show you that a little effort goes a long way for it.

1:32.0

Now see my words are just random.

1:33.7

It's like dictionary, adjectives, what's an adjective,

1:36.8

and go with that.

1:37.6

But yeah, well, I appreciate that, Alice.

1:39.2

And you're right.

1:40.2

Today we're going to talk about the role of the prosecutor.

1:42.4

This is a topic that people have asked for before. It really after we did the Adnon episode. We got a lot more requests for this. So we were always going to do this, but it just seemed like the perfect time to do it after everything that happened.

1:55.8

Exactly, and after a lot of your questions, it became clear that not a lot of people actually

2:00.4

understood the role of the prosecutor, especially at different phases of a case.

2:04.4

Because your role is the same throughout

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