Abstract
This Article describes the rhetorical and regulatory changes that characterize
the new prosecutorial accountability, identifies the conditions that
have enabled them to occur, and considers their implications. While identifying
various necessary conditions, the Article argues that information technology
has been the essential catalyst; the evolution could not be sustained
without the aggregation, accessibility, and communication of data and commentary
about prosecutorial misconduct that new information technology
makes readily available to the public. Given the permanence of information
technology in modern society, the Article concludes by cautiously predicting
that the contemporary regulatory movement will be sustained; the pendulum
will not swing back to the period when courts and the media presumed the
integrity of prosecutors and counted on them to ameliorate the excesses and
injustices of the police. Rather, the current pressure to hold prosecutors
accountable will be ongoing.
Recommended Citation
Bruce Green & Ellen Yaroshefsky,
Prosecutorial Accountability 2.0,
92
Notre Dame L. Rev.
(2017).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol92/iss1/2