The son of one of her prosecutors was mistaken for hers, kidnapped and later killed.
EG Morris, an Austin attorney and the former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, warned that overzealous prosecutors could mistake a a bystander brave enough to take photos for evidence as a suspect.
(Dickey also noted that, based on the hotel's room entry records, the prosecutors were mistaken about at least one supposed inconsistency in her account, about the sequence of events after the encounter with Strauss-Kahn).
They're protected by absolute immunity, which -- just as it sounds -- makes it nearly impossible to sue them for damages, even when they're flat wrong on the laws they're paid to know, and even when police officers then rely on a judge or prosecutor's mistaken views on the law in the course of egregiously violating someone's rights.
All they could tell us was that they had a rape action plan, and we shouldn't be too hard on police or prosecutors who make "mistakes".
During cross-examination last week by Paul R. Grand, a lawyer for Timothy J. Rigas, Mr. Brown said prosecutors made another mistake in a transcript of a tape recording of a May 16, 2000, conference call with analysts.
If the prosecutors make a mistake, the court won't correct it.
Several days later, he said making the documents public would provide time for prosecutors to correct any mistakes.
Cases in which office investigators conclude that prosecutors merely made a mistake or had poor judgment would, however, still be handled by their supervisors.
But once that bridge had been crossed, the Vance team did not make the tragic mistake that prosecutors commit all too often.
