How Can You Prosecute Those People?

Defense attorneys are frequently asked the “cocktail party” question: “how can you represent those people?” Prosecutors are rarely asked “how can you prosecute those people?” It’s a good question—and maybe harder to answer, in many respects, than the defense attorney question. It is interesting that we do not demand the same moral accountability from prosecutors that we do from defense attorneys about the work they have chosen. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.