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Use the Rules of Criminal Procedure to Limit Prosecutors’ Power

by Eli Lehrer
March 11, 2020
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issues: Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Decriminalization, Policing, Pretrial, Prosecution
originally published in Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review
From Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review:

Legislators in the United States have defined so many crimes – many of them overlapping acts that have already been criminalized – that almost any criminal act can result in multiple charges, each with its own punishment.

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