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REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Hi Rump. We are a State Attorney And a Public Defender and we decided to take you up on your offer to write something for Sunday. Each of us feels, for different reasons that we cannot reveal our identity. On the PD side, there is a culture of being against ?sleeping with the enemy? (not that we?re sleeping together) and the PD here feels s/he will have the friendship held against him/her.On the Prosecutor side of things, the fear is much worse. There is no outspoken rule against fraternization with the other side, but as we have seen this past year, prosecutors have been fired for less.There is as you have written, "a palpable sense of fear" in the hallways of the State Attorneys Office. If you are content to sell your soul, if not your ideals, and act as an unreasonable, unfeeling automaton, then you can do just fine here at the SAO...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).