Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 1988
ISSN
0092-2315
Publisher
University of Texas School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Questions about the scope and content of the duty to "seek justice" pervade prosecutorial work. Prosecutors are required to serve in a dual role: they are both advocates seeking conviction and "ministers of justice." Observers have complained about a tendency on the part of prosecutors to prefer the former of these "schizophrenic" obligations to the latter. This is commonly described as a tendency to behave overzealously or according to a "conviction psychology. ' "
Recommended Citation
Stanley Z. Fisher,
In Search of the Virtuous Prosecutor: A Conceptual Framework
,
in
15
American Journal of Criminal Law
197
(1988).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1204
Comments
As originally published in American Journal of Criminal Law.