• an_onanist@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The Attorney General does not keep people in prison, they only prosecute cases… That’s the parole board.

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      3 months ago

      Has to do with bad crime lab evidence:

      https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233375207.html

      "While the San Francisco Police Department was responsible for running the lab, not Harris’s district attorney office, a court ruled in 2010 that the district attorney’s office violated defendants’ constitutional rights by not disclosing what it knew about the tainted drug evidence.

      Judge Anne-Christine Masullo wrote in her decision that prosecutors “at the highest levels of the district attorney’s office knew that Madden was not a dependable witness at trial and that there were serious concerns regarding the crime lab.”