(Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)A reasonable prosecutor — and a fair one — knows she must pursue every lead before deciding whether to bring a criminal case. It’s different from interviewing a person face to face, which is what any reasonable prosecutor would want to do. “No sex crimes prosecutor could stand behind that if Ford was their witness and not the subject of their defense. How she goes back to her victim population in Arizona is beyond imagination to me,” Linda Fairstein, former chief of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Sex Crimes Bureau and career sex crimes prosecutor, told The Post. As a seasoned sex crimes prosecutor, Mitchell knows that.

Source: Washington Post October 01, 2018 18:12 UTC